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The Chinese were actually the first to invent beer.BTW, the EGYPTIANS INVENTED BEER.
Women Dominated Beer Brewing Until They Were Accused of Being Witches
Strict gender norms and fears of witchcraft pushed them out of a centuries-long tradition
When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson sisters didn’t chug down bottles of Sam Adams in “Hocus Pocus.” But the history of beer points to a not-so-magical legacy of transatlantic slander and gender roles.
Humans have been drinking beer for almost 7,000 years, and the original brewers were women. From the Vikings to the Egyptians, women brewed beer both for religious ceremonies and to make a practical, calorie-rich beverage for the home.
In fact, the nun Hildegard von Bingen, who lived in modern-day Germany, famously wrote about hops in the 12th century and added the ingredient to her beer recipe.
From the Stone Age to the 1700s, ale – and, later, beer – was a household staple for most families in England and other parts of Europe. The drink was an inexpensive way to consume and preserve grains. For the working class, beer provided an important source of nutrients, full of carbohydrates and proteins. Because the beverage was such a common part of the average person’s diet, fermenting was, for many women, one of their normal household tasks.
Women Dominated Beer Brewing Until They Were Accused of Being Witches
Strict gender norms and fears of witchcraft pushed them out of a centuries-long tradition
www.smithsonianmag.com
The way this it is worded, is suggests the Vikings were before Egypt, of which is impossible.
While the article is pro women, it gives the invention to white women, and then not African women, Black women. It shows how people can be pro Women, yet still be a racist prick.
According to who?The Chinese were actually the first to invent beer.
According to who?
I can guarantee you that Egypt, is waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy older than China. I can also guarantee you that Nekhebet was one of the reasons for it being created.
It would not the the first time that so called research was incorrect, then not giving credit where credit is due.Egypt could be older than China, but that does not mean they started producing beer before them.
"When McGovern traveled to China and discovered the oldest known alcohol—a heady blend of wild grapes, hawthorn, rice and honey that is now the basis for Dogfish Head’s Chateau Jiahu—he was touched but not entirely surprised to learn of another “first” unearthed at Jiahu, an ancient Yellow River Valley settlement: delicate flutes, made from the bones of the red-crowned crane, that are the world’s earliest-known, still playable musical instruments."
The Beer Archaeologist | History | Smithsonian Magazine
The source is coming from Smithsonian Mag whom you posted in your original post. What you posted could also be incorrect based on what you're saying, but okay.It would not the the first time that so called research was incorrect, then not giving credit where credit is due.
HQT was being used as libation 10,000 years before Christ, even before asia was even in existence.
But hey, I've also heard that Donald Trump has done more for African Americans, than any other president ever.
I also noted how they tried to attribute such,The source is coming from Smithsonian Mag whom you posted in your original post. What you posted could also be incorrect based on what you're saying, but okay.
The culture
Then: In ancient Egypt, beer was so essential it was treated principally as a type of food – it was consumed daily and in great quantities at religious festivals and celebrations. Beer was an essential for labourers, like those who built the pyramids of Giza, who were provided with a daily ration of 1⅓ gallons (over 10 pints). Yet it still had divine status, with several gods and goddesses associated with beer. Hathor, the goddess of love, dance and beauty, was also known as ‘The Lady of Drunkenness’.
I initially said Nekhebet but it is also Hathor, or more commonly known as HetHeru, The golden Calf, the goddess who did battle with Moses. These Goddesses were also of Nubia, of which is older than Egypt, and they had beer there as well.A sip of history: ancient Egyptian beer
Food historian Tasha Marks invites brewers Michaela Charles and Susan Boyle to help her recreate a 5,000-year-old beer.blog.britishmuseum.org