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It required the invention of beer (which was predicated on a number of technologies, including large-scale agriculture, pottery, and zymurgy). Once they cracked
by bregma 2y ago
It required the invention of beer (which was predicated on a number of technologies, including large-scale agriculture, pottery, and zymurgy). Once they cracked open the first cold ones though, it got hard to get up off the stone-age couch and people began to specialize in such fields as philosophy and singing.
- xenospn 2y agoWasn’t all beer warm until the invention of refrigeration?
- technothrasher 2y agoThere are writings from Mesopotamia around 4000 BC talking about cooling food and drink in ice houses.
- adolph 2y agoA yakhchāl (Persian: یخچال "ice pit"; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of ice house, which also made ice. . . . Records indicate that these structures were built as far back as 400 BCE, and many that were built hundreds of years ago remain standing, where Persian engineers built yakhchāls in the desert to store ice, usually made nearby [0] Perhaps the earliest reference to icehouses comes from Shulgi, who held sway in the Sumerian city of Ur at the tail end of the third millennium bc. . . . Year 13, for Shulgi, was dubbed “Building of the royal icehouse/cold-house.” Jackson suggested such buildings might have been “timber-lined holes in the ground” designed to keep ice brought down from the mountains “cool and secure.” [1] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l 1. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/do-you-want-build-icehouse https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/do-you-want-buil...
- kombookcha 2y agoThat's so cool! Very interesting how similar it would be to the ice houses used right up until fridges come around. Ice blocks in basements lined with timber and packed in sawdust. Sumerian civilization is just endlessly fascinating.
- dyauspitr 2y agoEven back then they called it “opening a cold one with the boys”
- lmm 2y agoGood beer has always been best at room temperature. In the 1870s German industrialisation created cheaper beers that are tolerable if refrigerated.