Very interesting. Leaders think alike.
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts . . . and beer.
—Abraham Lincoln”
Here are a few historical footnotes regarding beer:
• The Code of Hammurabi, the world’s oldest legal document, includes laws governing the brewing, distribution, and purchasing of beer. The penalty for violating some of these laws was death. Obviously there were some serious beer drinkers back then.
• By 4000 BC, a Babylonian consumer could buy sixteen kinds of beer in his local brewpub.
• Rice beer was a common drink in China by about 2300 BC.
• An Assyrian tablet from around 2000 BC claims that Noah, like many modern boaters, packed beer on his ark.
• Around 1100 BC, Egyptian king Ramses III sacrificed thirty thousand gallons of beer to the gods annually. His priests poured it on the altar, though a bit of it must have found its way through the holy men.
• The Aztecs had a myriad of gods associated with brewing pulque (agave beer).
• When Columbus arrived in the New World, he saw women making corn beer. Also, some of the first European settlers were offered persimmon beer by the local natives.
• The Puritans’ consumption of beer was restricted by law; an individual was allowed no more than ½ gallon for breakfast. How far removed we are from our pious forefathers[…].
Excerpt From
Strong Waters
Scott Mansfield
……
Obviously Scott Mansfield knows nothing of external or internal ‘soma’ of Rig Veda.
…
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts . . . and beer.
—Abraham Lincoln”
Here are a few historical footnotes regarding beer:
• The Code of Hammurabi, the world’s oldest legal document, includes laws governing the brewing, distribution, and purchasing of beer. The penalty for violating some of these laws was death. Obviously there were some serious beer drinkers back then.
• By 4000 BC, a Babylonian consumer could buy sixteen kinds of beer in his local brewpub.
• Rice beer was a common drink in China by about 2300 BC.
• An Assyrian tablet from around 2000 BC claims that Noah, like many modern boaters, packed beer on his ark.
• Around 1100 BC, Egyptian king Ramses III sacrificed thirty thousand gallons of beer to the gods annually. His priests poured it on the altar, though a bit of it must have found its way through the holy men.
• The Aztecs had a myriad of gods associated with brewing pulque (agave beer).
• When Columbus arrived in the New World, he saw women making corn beer. Also, some of the first European settlers were offered persimmon beer by the local natives.
• The Puritans’ consumption of beer was restricted by law; an individual was allowed no more than ½ gallon for breakfast. How far removed we are from our pious forefathers[…].
Excerpt From
Strong Waters
Scott Mansfield
……
Obviously Scott Mansfield knows nothing of external or internal ‘soma’ of Rig Veda.
…
