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  • bklyndroobeki-1

    Silly question I'll likely regret later: Was there beer in Jesus age?

    • yes, way olderuan
    • yupGnash
    • invented somewhen around dinosaurs liveduan
    • yes, but much of it had less alcohol %brandelec
    • the dinosaurs invented beer, around 7000 years ago.garbage
    • Jesus turned water into wine, right?monospaced
    • Je who?Ben99
    • Yes. Which makes some brands' inability to make a good one all the more disappointing.MrT
    • bazinga, MrTGnash
    • totally mono. but wine into beer?bklyndroobeki
    • dino's were fermenting MF'sbklyndroobeki
    • Jesus' time wasn't that long ago. People were getting blitzed on beer for thousands and thousands of years before him.monospaced
    • i saw graffiti'ed on a glass pane in the West Village this weekend "Jesus Drank Too", i cracked up.

      Not just wine... though wine likely favorable.
      bklyndroobeki
    • hah! mono, i need 2 read up on the history of spirits.bklyndroobeki
    • booze and humanity go hand in handmonospaced
    • speaking of. q00b nyc needs a meetup, i will be there.bklyndroobeki
    • Good idea.monospaced
    • I'm going to guess that you will suggest meet up in Brooklyn.pango
    • nah, pango meeting in the city is more convenient to folks in the metro area :) although if Brooklyn, I'd suggest the dive near the Bklyn Museumbklyndroobeki
    • city pleasemonospaced
    • early evidence of beer is a 3900-yr-old Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, which contains the oldest surviving beer recipe.imbecile
    • beer is easily 20,000+ years old, if not much, much, MUCH oldermonospaced
    • well, fermented alcoholic drinks are, and where there was wheat/grain there was a form of beermonospaced
    • [citation needed]imbecile
    • Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise." :)scransom5

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