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Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)
wing and seafaring are mainstays of ancient human endeavors. Beer was first fermented by at least the 5th millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
Fierce ship of war in Lazari Bayfii Annotationes in legem II De captiuis & postliminio reuersis(1537; link)Brewing and seafaring are mainstays of ancient human endeavors. These they occasionally infuse in a proper quantity of warm water, which begins so soon to ferment, that in the space of twenty-four hours their brewage is completed, in the production of a small, brisk, and acidulous liquor, they call quas, palatable to themselves, and not disagreeable to the taste of strangers. The Seaman’s New Vade Mecum by Robert Liddel (London, 1803; link) L’Art de Batir les Vaisseaux(Amsterdam, 1718-1719; Dibner Library copy)Attesting to the affinity between beer and the sea is the number of maritime-themed brews out there.
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