COOOOOOLLL!!!!!!! However it doesn't answer my life long question - who was the first person to come home from a vacation, find some "rancid" grains that got caught in the rain and decided to drink it? I mean it had to have been invented by accident right?
Shamelessly stolen from here:
http://www.forevergeek.com/2010/08/post-international_beer_day_history_lesson/the-history-of-beer-1/