I brew my own beer. I do it for my own needs not to sell or anything.
I have always been fascinated by that. Is it difficult?
Not really if you know what you are doing. It has been done for thousands of years, although whether it is legal is to be decided.
I would think if you were just doing it for your own personal use, it's legal.
That is true. Before the commercialization of it happened, women were the ones that made all the alcohol.
Really? I didn't know that. Do you know why that is?
throughout its 7,000-year history, beginning in the Neolithic period in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), Egypt and China. It seems to have first developed as thick beers; during this time meads, fruit wines and rice wines were also developed.
Women brewers dominated alcohol production on every occupied continent until commercialization and industrialization of brewing occurred. The tradition of brewing being in the domain of women stemmed from the fact that brewing was a by-product of gathering, and often considered a part of baking.
The Greeks and Romans
your additional Fines and Whippings? I own, I do not think as you do; for, if I thought, what you call a Sin, was really such, I would not presumptuously commit it. But how can it be believed, that Heaven is angry at my having Children, when, to the little done by me towards it, God has been pleased to add his divine Skill and admirable Workmanship in the Formation of their Bodies, and crown’d it by furnishing them with rational and immortal Souls? Forgive me