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Re:The fishy ingredient in beer that bothers vegetarians by Retric on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:58AM (#12505304)
It goes back to 1722 which is very recent in beer terms. People where making beer 5,000 years ago.
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Re:The fishy ingredient in beer that bothers vegetarians by dagw on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:18AM (#12505428)
Where did you get the 1722 number from? I've never found a good source on when the process started?

But still when people are talking about the beginning of "modern manufacture of crappy commercial beers" I think it's safe to assume that they are at the very least talking about brewing after the discovery of the role of yeast in brewing and the control that that offered to the process, which is still 100 years after the quote I gave was made.

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