“I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.” Madame Lilly Bollinger
Why should we be thanking goats for the invention of coffee? How did coffee become the only legal stimulant in the Arab world? In other words, everything that you’d like to know about coffee, but are too shy to ask your doctor about.
Beer was born at the same time as human civilisation. It has been linked to our writing system, the first bread we baked, the first currency and the first Egyptian god. Interestingly, the tipple of our beer-supping ancestors did not contain hops and was recommended for women and children.