Oh, interesting! I suppose that makes sense, given that humans have been drinking beer for millennia longer than we’ve been writing. The first society to start writing probably would talk about beer a fair bit. I’ve seen prayers about and recipes for beer before (sometimes the same text), but not the one you described
Semi-related: when I went to have a look for texts about drunkenness, I learned about the Dialogue of Two Scribes. It’s amazing. It’s literally just 130+ lines of back-and-forth insults
Fun fact, mesopotamian beer was drank through a straw because they did not filter it. They’d simply let the solids fall to the bottom and sip off the liquid
Apparently they also documented the effects of too much beer on the human mind. Potentially some of the first records of alcoholism?
Oh, interesting! I suppose that makes sense, given that humans have been drinking beer for millennia longer than we’ve been writing. The first society to start writing probably would talk about beer a fair bit. I’ve seen prayers about and recipes for beer before (sometimes the same text), but not the one you described
Semi-related: when I went to have a look for texts about drunkenness, I learned about the Dialogue of Two Scribes. It’s amazing. It’s literally just 130+ lines of back-and-forth insults
There’s a great Tasting History episode about Ancient Mesopotamian beer and their writings around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4DMt8ARyU
I appreciate the reminder of this, I had been meaning to try the recipe and completely forgot
Fun fact, mesopotamian beer was drank through a straw because they did not filter it. They’d simply let the solids fall to the bottom and sip off the liquid