Females were our first brewers, before Christ
(NEWSER) - Though both the brewing and consumption of beer might seem to have “manly” stamped all over them, it’s in fact women who drove suds’ popularity. Since thousands of years before Christ, a British historian tells the Daily Mail , brewing was done in the home, and females were in charge. Cleaner than water, Jane Peyton notes, beer “was part of the daily diet and therefore part of a woman’s domestic chores to produce.” More»
