Beer was responsible for technology

A BRITISH boff working over the pond claims that humanity's first technological breakthroughs were because of the development of beer.

Charlie Bamforth, who has the dream job of Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science at the University of California, said that computers, the iPod, Silcon Valley and space travel all owe their development to beer.

He says that beer is the basis of modern static civ­ilization. Before beer, humanity wandered around and followed goats.

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.

They stayed put while the grain grew and while the beer was brewed, villages were formed from tents, villages became towns, and those towns became cities. With cities came a pooling of talent, specialisation and technological ideas and eventually a booming IT industry.

Bamforth said that to follow the path of beer could lead to humanity's next breakthrough in evolution.

"He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not sin goes to heaven. The logic is impeccable," he said.

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