Bronze Age Greeks: Beer for my horses!*

“The ancient Greeks may have liberally indulged in wine, but that's not the only alcoholic beverage they imbibed, according to a new study that describes the discovery of two potential Bronze Age breweries.

“The ‘stout discoveries mark what may be the oldest beer-making facilities in Greece and upend the notion that the region's ancient go-to drink was only wine, the researchers said.

"’It is an unexpected find for Greece, because until now all evidence pointed to wine,’ study researcher Tania Valamoti, an associate professor of archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece, told Live Science.”

https://www.livescience.com/61590-oldest-beer-in-greece.html

Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2018/01/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-1-31-2018/#more-45036

Come on. Scientists don’t know by now that if a people can make beer, they will?

*Okay, the story doesn’t say anything about that, but Toby Keith’s song was the first thing that came to mind when I read the Live Science headline.