![]() ![]() Allotments of rum, in turn, enhanced the fighting effectiveness of British tars against foreign sailors debilitated by scurvy. In Córdoba, distilled spirits formed rum. Here, we learn the vintage that Caligula preferred. From cuneiform beer ledgers, Standage’s story hops to Dionysus and the oenophiles of Greece and Rome, who knew as much about the pleasures of the grape as any modern wine snob. (And so the stage was set for cartoons set in barrooms eons later). Finding it good, and more salubrious than plain water, mankind turned brewer. Technology historian Standage ( The Turk, 2002, etc.) follows the flow of civilization as humanity guzzles a half-dozen prime beverages.įirst made by nature in prehistory was beer. ![]()
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