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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Apparently they also documented the effects of too much beer on the human mind. Potentially some of the first records of alcoholism?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, interesting! I suppose that makes sense, given that humans have been drinking beer for millennia longer than we've been writing. The first society to start writing probably would talk about beer a fair bit. I've seen prayers about and recipes for beer before (sometimes the same text), but not the one you described

Semi-related: when I went to have a look for texts about drunkenness, I learned about the Dialogue of Two Scribes. It's amazing. It's literally just 130+ lines of back-and-forth insults

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

There's a great Tasting History episode about Ancient Mesopotamian beer and their writings around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4DMt8ARyU

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I appreciate the reminder of this, I had been meaning to try the recipe and completely forgot

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Fun fact, mesopotamian beer was drank through a straw because they did not filter it. They'd simply let the solids fall to the bottom and sip off the liquid

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