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# Brews You Can Use III
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2234/
- Published: 2005-09-02T13:34:20.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-02T13:34:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

Don't swallow trash, even if you think it's beer:

> A South Kingstown man who became ill after he drank from a beer bottle ingested a caustic liquid.

> Police say the liquid that sent Michael Darigan to the hospital last Sunday resembles lye.

> Lye is a highly concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. It's often found in commercial drain and oven cleaners.

> The 53-year-old Darigan found the bottle along his jogging route last week.

[Link](http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3781735&nav=F2DOdu3B&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

This reminds us of speculations about the discovery of beer. Some speculate that Sumerians or other ancient peoples drank water that had been sitting for awhile at the bottom of a corn or wheat bin. Having fermented, the grain water had become beer.

These, we surmised, weren't the earliest beer drinkers, but rather the earliest alcoholics.