ode to beer

[rone]

The Sumerians had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi. They even wrote a hymn to Ninkasi. That's just plain cool. Someone should set it to music.

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agh

[wednesday]

The CAMRA had (has?) a big campaign centered around Ninkasi. Ninkasi as portrayed by a model in spandex, in poses most appropriate to the cover of FHM or other ladmags. Attributing her purpoted hotness to beer.

This was meant to be the campaign to *draw women into CAMRA*.

It didn't help that they were suggesting "beers for women," which were invariably light and candylike sorts of things. Beh.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

>When you pour out the filtered beer
>of the collector vat,
>It is [like] the onrush of
>Tigris and Euphrates.

Not, one hopes, just as they are at the moment.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

The author of A Natural History of the Rich theorizes that beer was invented before bread.

I don't know how true that is, but the Kalevala contains a ritual for the brewing of beer (the translator's introduction calls it a "coded recipe"), and not one for the baking of bread.