I wrote a couple of blogs ages ago about the early influence of the 'Beer Goddess' and women brewers (brewsters) on my favourite tipple. Indeed, in one blog, I suggested that beer was first brewed by the Somerians 4,000 years ago in what is now Southern Iraq, how wrong I appeared to be. Indeed, the site in the photograph above (Guardian), discovered by archaeologists in Abydos, Egypt, may be hundreds of years older! Artefacts consistent with brewing, notably large vessels and pottery basins, have been found there, and, apparently, some British archaeologists a hundred years ago believed a brewery to be in the area, but they couldn't find it...
Well it's been found now, so 5,000 years of brewing history, cheers!
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