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the grain that quietly built beer, whiskey, and half of human civilization while wheat got famous.
means A hardy cereal grass and its nutritious grain, grown widely for animal feed, malting, brewing, and bread.
from From Old English 'bærlic,' originally an adjective meaning 'of barley,' built on 'bere' (the older word for the grain itself) plus the '-lic' suffix that gives us '-ly.' That 'bere' survives in 'barn,' which literally meant a 'barley-house' — bere plus ærn, 'storage place.' The root reaches back to Proto-Germanic and likely a Proto-Indo-European word for grain, a distant cousin of Latin 'far' (spelt) and 'farina' (flour). So the place you stored your grain quietly named itself after the grain you stored.
- ancient cred
- Romans paid gladiators in barley rations
- beer backbone
- Most beer starts as malted, sprouted barley
- gladiator grub
- Called hordearii, the barley-eating men
- tough crop
- Grows in cold, salty, drought-stricken soils others reject
- old timer
- One of the first domesticated grains, 10,000 years old
scotch whisky — scotland produces ~90% of the world's single malt whisky from malted barley
budweiser beer — anheuser-busch's flagship uses barley as a key grain in its recipe since 1876
japanese barley tea — mugicha, a roasted barley drink consumed throughout japan as a summer beverage