Declan's presentation on Ancient Booze at Ignite Dublin 8 8th December 2011

1. He was a wise man who invented beer.
- Plato

3. Laussel Venus – Dordogne Valley, France about
20,000 years BP
Horn of Plenty & Fertility Goddess depiction or simply
a carving of a drunk, promiscuous woman

5. Without question, the greatest invention
in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I
grant you that the wheel was also a fine
invention, but the wheel does not go
nearly as well with pizza.
- Dave Barry

6. The Great bar in the Sky –
Methanol clouds in space

7. Give my stomach to Milwaukee
if they run out of beer...
- John Prine

8. Dudley’s Drunken Monkey Hypothesis

9. "I would kill everyone in this room for
a drop of sweet beer."
- Homer Simpson

11. Beer is proof that God loves us and
wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin
Or he may have said…
Behold the rain which descends from
heaven upon our vineyards, there it
enters the roots of the vines, to be
changed into wine, a constant proof
that God loves us, and loves to see us
happy.

13. “Beer in the morning, beer in the
afternoon
and beer at night. A little wine thrown in
for good measure.
Out on the Tiles with Pyramid Workers,
Melbourne Herald-Sun, 7th June 1993

14. The entire of civilisation is a careful construction
for the production and distribution of beer
- Unknown

16. "An intelligent man is sometimes forced
to be drunk to spend time with fools."
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest
Hemingway

17. The Epic of Gilgamesh

18. The Hymn to Ninkasi

19. "Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies, come to life
and fade away. What care I how the day advances,
I am drinking ale today."
- Edgar Allan Poe

20. And our own Bronze Age Ale…
Images of Venus of Laussel CC http://www.donsmaps.com More at our blog:
Rat drinking CC adria.richards on Flickr
Banksy’s Hunter Gatherers CC robotson on Flickr
Methanol Cloud - Jodrell Bank Observatory Website: www.mooregroup.ie
Other images, Moore Group or sources unknown or unattributed
Blog: www.mooregroup.ie/blog