

Oh, interesting! I suppose that makes sense, given that humans have been drinking beer for millennia longer than we’ve been writing. The first time to start writing probably would talk about beer a fair bit. I’ve seen prayers about and recipes for beer before (sometimes the same text), but not the one you described
Semi-related: when I went to have a look for texts about drunkenness, I learned about the Dialogue of Two Scribes. It’s amazing. It’s literally just 130+ lines of back-and-forth insults
I appreciate the reminder of this, I had been meaning to try the recipe and completely forgot