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I agree with hu-man about beer.
First brewed in 10 000 BC, beer encouraged the development of agriculture and society and ended the hunter-gatherer phase of the human race. Most importantly though, we forget that for much of human history, water was a rather dangerous thing - source of dysentary and cholera. The very act of forming communties, cities and towns made water sources contaminated. Beer provided fluid sustenance and nutrition without the risk of death.
Hail the brewers who wrote the US constitution. Hail aqua vitae - the water of life.
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