r/MurderedByWords Sep 11 '19

Murder This is absolutely true, isn't it?

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u/ChuckieOrLaw Sep 11 '19

Women did invent computer software and beer, which are two of my favourite things - this game looks dumb though, less fun than regular monopoly which is also dumb.

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u/Crankyoldhobo Sep 11 '19

Women invented beer?

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u/ChuckieOrLaw Sep 11 '19

Yep - here's the Wiki page on women in brewing:

From the earliest evidence of brewing in 7000 BCE, until the commercialization of brewing during industrialization, women were the primary brewers on all inhabited continents.

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u/Crankyoldhobo Sep 11 '19

Ayyyyyy you did the research - nice.

Some of these recipes sound delicious:

In the grave of the "Egtved Girl", a bucket of grog buried at her feet showed that the drink was made from a mixture of wheat, rye and barley as a base and included cranberries, honey, and lingonberries, as well as herbs, including birch resin, bog myrtle, juniper, and yarrow, to spice the drink

And I guess this bit explains my initial puzzlement:

Over a long period of time, throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, brewing in Europe changed from being a women's profession to one dominated by men, although women were still involved in the sale of beer. As women were forced out of brewing, the creation of a new ideology about women brewers took place which included "the construction of women as incapable of brewing; the link of this construction to the witch; and the position of widows as both brewers and ale-sellers".

Thanks for looking this up. And thanks for all the beer, ladies.