To drink beer is to be human.
ALAN D. EAMES
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This is all thousands of years old. It’s the same the world over.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames The awful realization of our mortality
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames I asked these Indians: “Do men ever make Chicha?” My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, “Men can’t brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames It’s what we do as a species. It’s what makes us human. We brew.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames You are a funny man! Beer is women’s work.”
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life.
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