Beer-Brewing Women, Soused Workers Built Pyramids
Bare-breasted women engaged in sudsy brewing work adorn tomb paintings and clay models from the dynastic period. To slake his thirst, each laborer on the pyramids got a daily beer allotment of 1 1/3 gallons. Everyone partied at the annual celebration of the Drunkenness of Hathor, goddess of fertility, motherhood and the Milky Way.
From this annoyingly brief web article about Iain Gately's book, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol.
Labels: Beer History
posted by hiikeeba at 08:31
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Have you read 'Fermenting Revolution' by Christopher Mark O'Brien (New Society Publishers)? There is more interesting beer-brewing history and other interesting & amusing writing there. The book is titled "How to drink beer and save the world". I can certainly get behind that!
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