We're civilized thanks to Beer

[Raoul]

Yep, It seems that without beer we'd still be neanderthals.

Life's good.

[VERO1]

Beer is good food!

[Garufa]

:up:  Beer

[Lumber_Jack]

Consider me civilized

[Raoul]

It's safer to drink German beer that to drink water.
This is due to the Reinheitsgebot (sometimes called the "German Beer Purity Law" or the "Bavarian Purity Law" in English.

[Earl33]

Beer is cheaper than most store bought water.. Watched a program today talking about how alcohol helped shape America.. Good or bad, right or wrong I like beer.... 

[hipower]

Haven't had a beer in...gee, I don't know how long. Maybe that's what's wrong with me?

[Raoul]

As Ben Franklin said.... God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

[Mike.357]

the pilgrims only chose to land at Plymouth because they ran out of beer.  If they had more beer they may have kept on sailing.

 

There might be something better than beer but I am not sure what.

[RED333]

I stopped drinking years ago(25), but beer was about the only way to get something clean to drink when this country

was getting started.

[TrickyNicky]

I just enjoyed a beeping helping of beer earlier tonight. It's a Sunday night tradition for me, couldn't imagine my life without my favoritest beverage.

Ditto on the pilgrims, how do you think folks used to make month long voyages before the days of water purification/filtration? One word for you, BEER!

[peejman]

I'd have had a few more this weekend but I was so tired from working in the yard, I fell asleep.

 

 

 

Life's too short to drink cheap beer.

[Dennis1209]

The FDA needs to recognise "beer" as one of the five major food groups. There should be no taxes on food.

 

The wife without fail always mentions her ole factory senses and tear ducts when I over support the industry.

 

What other food group keeps your urinary tract spic n span?

 

I like beer, it makes me a jolly good fellow, I like beer...

[BryanP]

I enjoy the occasional beer, but this still makes me laugh.

 

[Dennis1209]

Another attribute of my favorite beverage that's appreciated and seldom discussed between spouses... Me & her at least.

 

I can eat all the steak, lobster, bacon and eggs I want to, and my spouse stays the same, however...

 

The more beer I drink, the better she starts to look! I always have twice the money, twice of everything I own when I look at it directly?

 

AND... I have deep empathy for people that don't partake of beer because, when they get out of bed in the morning, that's the best they will feel all day long. While I on the other hand, have something to look forward too throughout the day!

 

Put that C02 in your beverage and drink it...  :rofl:

[LagerHead]

I think there is more archaeological evidence than is hinted at in the article that beer was the reason we moved to farming. There are beer vessels that have been found that predate the earliest known bread recipes by at least a couple thousand years. Some even credit beer with the invention of the wheel and bookkeeping. There are very early records of beer distribution to support this theory. 

 

In addition beer was used to pay the workers who built the pyramids. Early Egyptian beer recipes produced (or included ingredients that contained) tetracycline 2,000 years before its discovery as an antibiotic by modern medicine.

 

Beer helped contain the spread of disease during the plague because you were forced to boil the water in it to make it.

 

Beer helped bring about the modern age of industrialization as bottling beer was one of its first uses.

 

In short, beer is definitely the most important invention in the history of mankind, bar none. 

[Raoul]

I used to drive a beer truck for a living. They pretty much paid me in beer too.