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ffatty  ·  2110 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Early pint: evidence of 'first British beer' found in Cambridgeshire

Wow, 400 BC.

While I don't know if I necessarily subscribe to it, I've always liked and sometimes regurgitated the theory that not only has alcohol always been deeply engrained in all human civilization, large scale agriculture and thus all of civilization itself actually began to appease the lust for fermentation!