A version of that is known in France to the present day as vin bourruWP. I once drank some in a bar in the Dordogne region and was unable to get out of bed the next day before 5 pm.
You do not understand that GT is in Turkey not China?
Very little evidence for residential use has been found at GT which is why it is considered to be a religious center.
Beer is has not evidence of any "settled, advanced, agrarian society" - especially when you want "advanced" to mean "globally connected"!
GT is evidence that a nomadic, simple, non-agrarian society could brew beer.
It is correct to state what we know something based on the current evidence because it is stupid to wait until we know 100% of anything to draw conclusions.
"Since GT lacks any evidence" is wrong. Not finding something is evidence that it is not there. There were no pink unicorns fond at GT thus we can be really sure that there are no pink unicorns at GT. More seriously:
Beer can be brewed from wild grains. Basic beer is easy to brew - just seep wild grains in water and leave it to ferment with the natural yeast in the air. The very first beer could be when a group of hunter/gatherers were preparing wild grains in just that manner.
- No pottery found = this was a simple pre-pottery society.
- No agricultural tools or cultivated plants found = this was a simple non-agrarian society.
- No writing found = this was a simple pre-writing society.
- No homes found = this was a simple non-residential (probably nomadic) society.
- 9 November 2017: Present your evidence of an "advanced agricultural civilization" at Göbekli Tepe (or acknowledge your assertion was wrong)
- 9 November 2017: Present your evidence of a "globally connected" civilization about 12,900 BP (start of the Younger Dryas).
- 9 November 2017: Present your evidence of a single civilization building pyramids globally about 12,900 BP (start of the Younger Dryas).
- 9 November 2017: Present your evidence that Easter Island is being re-dated and to about 12,900 BP (start of the Younger Dryas).
Do you know that it is idiocy to think that Neolithic people used modern brewing technology to brew modern beer
All you need to brew a very simple beer is a container + water + wild grains + the yeast in the air. It would not be efficient and would produce a weak beer. But it would produce beer.
Stone working doesn't require advanced technology. What has definitely not been found anywhere are the products of advanced technology. Therefore we can definitely say it did not happen in ancient times. Worked stones are found so we can say stone working occurred; but as noted, that doesn't require complex tools.
He is also continuing with the fantasy that Neolithic people used modern technologies, e.g. in the production of wort
We have to wonder how Neolithic people knew about the Celsius scale.
The history of barley
Göbekli Tepe was built in 2 phases. The first phase with the larger structures was during Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c. 11,500 – c. 10,000 BP) before barley was domesticated. The second phase overlapped the domestication of barley in other places (PPNB was between 10,700 and ca. 8,000 BP or 7000 - 6000 BCE). However I see no sign of any domesticated barley at Göbekli Tepe.
ETA: Wild barley is not the only way to make simple beer - there is also wild wheat.
I was speaking to a senior lecturer of Polynesian anthropology at the Bishop Museum, in Hawaii three month ago. We were discussing is Polynesians introduced potatoes into Eastern Asia before the Europeans.
You see, there's another nail in your coffin. Your international trade culture of 12,500 ago, "forgot" to exchange potatoes and tomatoes until about 800 years ago.
