Here are few bits which maybe interesting. Beer-making (and drinking) historically is "woman's territory"...

Beer-making started over 4000+ years ago, in the Near East Regions (current Jordan, Israel, Egypt, etc).
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/3fcfd664a...tian-tomb-model-cairo-museum-egypt-d96by3.jpg
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/...ent/uploads/Egyptian-woman-painting_Beer2.jpg
Fermented beverages (beer is one such) were the regular drinks consumed by an average family of those days. Women, along with all other house chores and cooking, brewed, served and drank beer on daily basis. There were "sleeping beers" used a sedatives, "menstrual cycle" and "pregnancy/birth" beers used as pain killers, beers for "energy to do the house work", beers for few other normal functions, including laxatives, and various "ceremonial beers" for all types of women's roles specially for women: mother's beer, bride's beer, guest's beer, midwife's beer, etc....

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