Hail Ninkasi - holy cow!
Blame it on too much sun, too little beer or just the silly season. Or how could the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) do this to us? At the Great British Beer Festival, which ran from 6 to 10 August 2002 in London, the campaigners unveiled a new “Goddess of Beer” to encourage women to try real cask ale, Britain’s traditional pub drink. Never mind that the goddess is older than The Mummy. She is also called Ninkasi after the Sumerian Goddess of Beer, who is said to have created her recipe for beer some 4,000 years ago and was worshipped by both men and women at a time when women brewed the beer and ran the taverns. Sorry gentlemen, that’s a naff idea. What is this poor lassie going to do for female consumers on the British Isles? Very little, it is to be feared. Same with females. Definitely..
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