Beer Before Bread

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i thought it might be appropriate to crack open a couple of beers, despite the hour of the day. Let's start with big idea number one, beer before bread. The standard story we've been told about the origins of human alcohol making is that humans figured out agriculture at some point. And so we discovered things like beers as an accident, as a kind of side product of agriculture. Well, let's get into it. I have here, aa monta wave chaser, india pale ale. So i have a hop razor, west coast ip a from house out brewin very local, wonderful oki here.

Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.