Anybody wants to take issue with this? ;-)
Udhay
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=E699E9C7-E7F2-99DF-38A7329520CF67D6&colID=15
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"Beer is the basis of modern static
civilization," began Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch
Endowed Professor of Brewing Science at the
University of California, Davis. "Because before
beer was discovered, people used to wander around
and follow goats from place to place. And then
they realized that this grain [barley] could be
grown and sprouted and made into a bread and
crumbled and converted into a liquid which gave a
nice, warm, cozy feeling. So gone were the days
that they followed goats around. They stayed put
while the grain grew and while the beer was
brewed. And they made villages out of their
tents. And those villages became towns, and those
towns became cities. And so here we are in New York, thanks to beer."
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