"As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo
spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible
that beer-like beverages were independently developed throughout the
world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical
tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced about
7,000 years ago in what is today Iran, and was one of the first-known
biological engineering tasks where the biological process of
fermentation is used.

In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 4,000-
year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through
reed straws from a communal bowl.[citation needed], A 3900-year-old
Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing,
contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production
of beer from barley via bread.

" Ninkasi, you are the one who bakes the bappir in the big oven,
Puts in order the piles of hulled grains,
You are the one who waters the malt set on the ground...

You are the one who holds with both hands the great sweet wort...

Drunk Animals
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ypXJaLQXKQk

How about the "origin of humans" beer theory? The text comes from this
site but the page is now missing'

http://www.globalbeer.com/body_pages/Texts/History&Beer/HistoryBeer.html

Apes turned into Humans thanks to alcohol.

The first branch of the ape family that was able to control the
production of alcohol became humans. Indeed, all apes and most animals
like alcohol. In fact, they all look for it and are willing to take
risks to get it. You certainly have heard of the wild elephants
destroying microbreweries in India, dogs and goats drinking beer in
Belgian pubs, and about the wild animals in Southern Africa going for
sugar-rich fruits, that fell from the trees and wherein the sugars
fermented into alcohol. The sight of drunken animals (apes, zebras,
giraffes, elephants, buffalo, gazelle...) is very common in the season.

On Mar 18, 12:56 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

Beer, as is any alcohol source, is an interesting
experiment and influencer of qualia. In fact the main
function of alcohol ingestion appears to be a crude
form of qualia management. The illusions of qualia
become very apparent. both sensor qualia and self
qualia. The self quale such as the illusions "consciousness",
and "feelings" become especially salient.

On Mar 18, 2:24 am, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

Good way of looking at it.

It became important due to the preceived increased projection of the
"self" and feelings.

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On Mar 18, 2:24 am, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

Good way of looking at it.

It became important due to the preceived increased projection of the
"self" and feelings.

***Who was doing the percieving? The qualia?

***This has always been the case, as long as man has walked the earth. Of
course,the use of beer is just one example of 'artificial consciousness
***expansion'...and always followed by a 'hang over'.

***Not that consciousness expansion is artificial...just the 'short cut',
always with a price to pay.

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