It Wasn't food! Human Farming Began For a Super Bizarre Reason: BEER!
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i told a prof at college that beer was why we stopped following herds, built settlements, and started growing crops, and he told me i was daft. i pointed out that farming was[is] heavily labour intensive, often crippling work, whereas foraging and hunting were not labour-intensive, and although some hunts could be crippling or even lethal, that was on the ego of the hunters. the only possible advantage to ceasing a more leisurely life was the requirement for grain, or fruit, to be boiled and ferment for a period of 2-3 weeks in a relatively temperature stable environment like, say, a built structure, because someone wanted to get hammered.
Humans didn't discover farming we were domesticated by brewers yeast.
Ancient beer *was* food. It was a lumpy gruel of grain, allowed to ferment and form alcohol to enhance its long-term preservation.
From hunter gatheres to alcoholics.
As a Bavarian, that theory makes perfect sense to me. Prost! 🍻 (Also a happy new year to all you wonderful people out there!)
Facts: we grew and stored grain to make beer, this (edit to add, of course there was the intermediate step where stored grain attracted rodents and they attracted) and caused the domestication of cats, and this led to the creation of videos about cats to entertain us as we drink beer
Chimpanzees have been seen drinking naturally fermented palm sap, and some consume the equivalent of many alcoholic beverages every day. However, grains do not ferment with wild yeast naturally. Early people, before farming, did collect wild grain to make a gruel or grind up to make bread. Grain left in pots (especially with water or milk) can ferment due to naturally present wild yeasts and bacteria. This process is the basis of many traditional foods (like sourdough or some animal feeds), Note, workers in Egypt being paid in beer is an important factor in the farming-to-make-beer premise.
I love how we always try to pose these questions as "either or" rather than probably being "All of the above".
I saw a documentary called "How Beer Saved the world" about 15+ years ago that covered this subject in detail. Very funny documentary.
The story of Vancouver Canada is such. Gassy Jack showed up to a logging camp with two barrels of rum. He said to the loggers, build me a building and I'll give you this barrel of rum. He was true to his word. He sold them the second shot by shot. And the third, and the fourth. Now there's a city here
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i told a prof at college that beer was why we stopped following herds, built settlements, and started growing crops, and he told me i was daft. i pointed out that farming was[is] heavily labour intensive, often crippling work, whereas foraging and hunting were not labour-intensive, and although some hunts could be crippling or even lethal, that was on the ego of the hunters. the only possible advantage to ceasing a more leisurely life was the requirement for grain, or fruit, to be boiled and ferment for a period of 2-3 weeks in a relatively temperature stable environment like, say, a built structure, because someone wanted to get hammered.
Humans didn't discover farming we were domesticated by brewers yeast.
Ancient beer *was* food. It was a lumpy gruel of grain, allowed to ferment and form alcohol to enhance its long-term preservation.
From hunter gatheres to alcoholics.
As a Bavarian, that theory makes perfect sense to me. Prost! 🍻 (Also a happy new year to all you wonderful people out there!)
Facts: we grew and stored grain to make beer, this (edit to add, of course there was the intermediate step where stored grain attracted rodents and they attracted) and caused the domestication of cats, and this led to the creation of videos about cats to entertain us as we drink beer
Chimpanzees have been seen drinking naturally fermented palm sap, and some consume the equivalent of many alcoholic beverages every day. However, grains do not ferment with wild yeast naturally. Early people, before farming, did collect wild grain to make a gruel or grind up to make bread. Grain left in pots (especially with water or milk) can ferment due to naturally present wild yeasts and bacteria. This process is the basis of many traditional foods (like sourdough or some animal feeds), Note, workers in Egypt being paid in beer is an important factor in the farming-to-make-beer premise.
I love how we always try to pose these questions as "either or" rather than probably being "All of the above".
I saw a documentary called "How Beer Saved the world" about 15+ years ago that covered this subject in detail. Very funny documentary.
The story of Vancouver Canada is such. Gassy Jack showed up to a logging camp with two barrels of rum. He said to the loggers, build me a building and I'll give you this barrel of rum. He was true to his word. He sold them the second shot by shot. And the third, and the fourth. Now there's a city here