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I can think of no better place than the dwindling BF chit-chat club to pose a question which has been bugging me for years. Back in 2001 on a tour of the Guinness brewery in Dublin, I recall seeing something about the history of alcohol, which said that the first evidence of people making alcoholic drinks was a few thousand years ago in ancient Egypt.
Hops/grains etc were mixed with water from the local river and over time fermentation took place and then a good time was had by all. The river was apparently called the Bouza (spelling?) which is why we now call it booze. My question is that, despite trying any version of spelling the name I can think of, I have never found any other evidence that this is the case. Have I been the victim of a cruel and elaborate hoax my chit-chat detective friends? |
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You've caught us on the hop there KKdan. What I do know is that the use of hops to flavour and sanitise beer is more recent than the origins of brewing.
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Chelmer
Wantsum. both great for fishing and massively underused |
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Cry Me A----
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Dee
Tees Exe Wye |
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Zed ? Gotta be one somewhere .
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Wear Dee Tees Don?
Up north near Middlesbrough, Sid. |
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River Monsters - though I reckon this week was a con - nothing to do with rivers - and when they pulled that Greenland shark up through the ice & it was dead, I reckon they put that there.
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Yangtze me old china
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River Plate
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Fleet
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there is a river in dublin called the Dodder perhaps its called so because after a few pints the guys dodder home.
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