another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
I am impressed at this much knowledge
Beer is gross imo, but the knowledge is greatly appreciated.
It’s just another example of “Men like this thing, so they shove all the women out and claim women were never there in the first place”, right up there with computer work and doctors.
my post has strayed deeply from its 3am complaints about beer Mood but i’m into this insight on the history of women & beer
This is true, but I would add…since I do know something about this…
Beer was for everyone to drink. It was the easiest way to consume water that was perceived safe, it contained nutrients that were considered safe to eat, and it also had a considerable number of uses besides just drinking. Beer flowed like water in those days. It was the chosen beverage of travelers. It was for the sick and the nursing. It was used as a tonic. And it was considered a sacred art. It was done by older women mostly because they had the time on hand that it took to do it. They were often responsible for kitchens or grain mills.
An addition to the bit about witches: Modern scholars like to carry on about things like ergot poisoning as if we had no idea they existed. We did. But because the symptoms were hallucinogenic in nature, it was believed it was caused by evil spirits. This in no way inhibited humans from figuring out the proper practices necessary for keeping the grain safe. It simply added a few more fun ones. Like protecting the grain with carved ghouls and statuary.
So here you are, an elder woman with no husband and no place in society. You have enough access to grain and the cast off beer of a brewer to propagate yeast in a cauldron. You stir with the bundle of twigs. You keep a cat to keep out the rodents. You sell your product while wearing a pointy hat that doubles as a grain measure. You sell beer related products laced with herbs as medicines, yeast heavy brew to expectant and nursing mothers, weak beer to the sick…
And you do it all from your shack surrounded by goblin and gargoyle sculptures.
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