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. EAMES
It’s what we do as a species. It’s what makes us human. We brew.
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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.
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Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species.
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It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
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This is all thousands of years old. It’s the same the world over.
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To drink beer is to be human.
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Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it.
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You are a funny man! Beer is women’s work.”
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life.
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The awful realization of our mortality
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