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Why Beer Could be the Greatest Invention of All!
How Beer led to the birth of Human Civilizations!
Remember that scene from The Shawshank Redemption where our characters enjoy icy cold bohemian-style beers on the rooftop. Well, that was my first happy memory of beer. I had tasted beer once or twice before that, but it had mostly tasted bitter. But not even 18 at the time, the time to experience and appreciate beer was yet to come.
It was during my college days, while trying to survive the excruciating summer at first, that I had fallen in love with beer. “Maybe the missing ingredient was the summer”, I would often initially think. Little did I know then, that falling in love with beer is just a matter of when and not if.
But as amazing as beer is, I never knew about its significance in human history. That was until my travel to Egypt, where one of the locals mentioned that the beer was the main subsidy and incentive during the construction of the Pyramid. Yes, our beloved beer, coveted even during the days of the Pyramid!
That revelation — that the structure wondrous enough to even conjure up “alien stories” was created on the promise of beer — was enough to make me delve into the history of beer. And as always, history starts from the origin!
