#maltsters

first farmers, first maltsters? Source: http://merryn.dineley.com/2015/02/first-farmers-first-maltsters.html “… could the discovery that a mash of fermented grain yielded a palatable and nutritious beverage have acted as a greater stimulant toward the experimental selection and breeding of the cereals than the discovery of flour and bread making? One would assume that the utilisation of wild cereals (along with edible roots and berries) as a source of collected food would have been in existence for millennia before their domestication took place. Was the subsequent impetus to this domestication bread or beer?” (Braidwood 1953, 515)......... Read More at http://merryn.dineley.com/2015/02/first-farmers-first-maltsters.html