Guinness actually is good for you!

[igor_kavinski]

But the craziest thing is, it's flammable! Who came up with the brilliant idea to drink combustible fuel??? I remember my chemistry teacher telling us never to drink anything labelled ethyl alcohol in the lab coz it is mixed with a small amount of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for drinking.

Did people in the earlier days go around drinking all sorts of chemicals to find the one perfect for drinking?

 

[nakedfrog]

But the craziest thing is, it's flammable! Who came up with the brilliant idea to drink combustible fuel??? I remember my chemistry teacher telling us never to drink anything labelled ethyl alcohol in the lab coz it is mixed with a small amount of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for drinking.

Did people in the earlier days go around drinking all sorts of chemicals to find the one perfect for drinking?

We came up with recipes for beer and wine long, long before we figured out how to distill alcohol pure enough to be flammable.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Is there a beer/wine genesis story, like the milk in camel pouch story for the origin and discovery of cheese?

 

[nakedfrog]

Is there a beer/wine genesis story, like the milk in camel pouch story for the origin and discovery of cheese?

Not that I'm aware of, but beer essentially pre-dates recorded history, as it shows up in some of our earliest writings.

 

[sdifox]

Is there a beer/wine genesis story, like the milk in camel pouch story for the origin and discovery of cheese?

Stole it from the monkeys.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Stole it from the monkeys.

You are right! Fascinating!

The Beer Brewing Monkeys of Borneo | Modern Drunkard Magazine

 

[Muse]

No, because I don't fucking care... I like beer.

I like beer (and ale, etc.) but I have to be in the right mood to really like it.

 

[Torn Mind]

But the craziest thing is, it's flammable! Who came up with the brilliant idea to drink combustible fuel??? I remember my chemistry teacher telling us never to drink anything labelled ethyl alcohol in the lab coz it is mixed with a small amount of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for drinking.

Did people in the earlier days go around drinking all sorts of chemicals to find the one perfect for drinking?

Humans like good feelings or "not feeling at all", or at least not remembering.
There's also the "it's better than nature's unfiltered water" part.

Humans have a way of picking up insights, although they then lace it with "superstitions". The liver was a sacred organ, but industrialization has basically killed the old cultural valuation of that organ. The Chinese term for "beloved"(person, pet, object) is 心肝（xin gan）, tranlsated literally as "heart" for the first character and "liver" for the second.