Chemical tests of pottery suggest that beer was around in what's now Iran, about 7,000 years ago. In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl.
What was the story about a semi trailer that tipped over into the Murray and everyone set up on the bank and kept diving in and bringing up more and more bottles