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Roulette Oompah! Singin' about beer The world’s most widely
consumed alcoholic beverage, and the third most popular drink
overall. The invention of beer is argued to be responsible for
humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization.
Think about that for a moment the next time you crack open a
cold one. Those early Neolithic humans were tipsy. Although we
are not aware of any modern day religions based on beer, history
has at least one example of beer worship. Take the Sumerians,
they were one of the first civilized cultures on planet Earth.
They invented a bunch of stuff that we still use today, like the
wheel, math, and writing. And beer. In fact, some of the
earliest Sumerian writing is a prayer to the goddess of
alcoholic beverages, Ninkasi, which conveniently happens to
include the recipe for beer. 3,500 years later, we're still
enjoying the bubbly brew, most avidly it seems in Europe, where
in some places, like the Czech Republic t