A Few Things You Didn't Know About Beer

[Ben]

The most interesting to me is that there were beer ad agencies 4000 years ago. :)

According to Eames, the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian stone tablet featured a large-busted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand, with the tagline, “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion.”

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/04/21/5-things-didnt-know-about-beer.html

[wmenorr67]

large-busted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand

Well now we know from where Germans originated from.

[Ben]

Well now we know from where Germans originated from.

I was thinking the same thing.  Now we know where beer maid hiring standards originated.  

[cordex]

I'm going to be a little skeptical here.  Did a quick check and while I found any number of references to the 4000 year old beer ad by guy who made that claim including in the claimant's obituary, I couldn't find a picture of it.  It seems to me that if the description is anything near accurate then everyone who repeated it would want to put the picture in every article that mentioned it.  Not proof, but makes me leery of repeating it.

[230RN]

Question:  Does anyone distill beer by freezing, as with applejack?

[MechAg94]

I'm going to be a little skeptical here.  Did a quick check and while I found any number of references to the 4000 year old beer ad by guy who made that claim including in the claimant's obituary, I couldn't find a picture of it.  It seems to me that if the description is anything near accurate then everyone who repeated it would want to put the picture in every article that mentioned it.  Not proof, but makes me leery of repeating it.

I figured it was a very exaggerated interpretation of cuneiform or whatever the written language was at that time.

[cordex]

I figured it was a very exaggerated interpretation of cuneiform or whatever the written language was at that time.

Of course, but even allowing for that if there were anything recognizable as a buxom wench wielding beer in both hands I'd expect to see it when the tablet was referenced.