You are holding a cold drink right now. Or you wish you were. What if that drink is older than farming itself? This is the story of three accidents: a rotten fruit, a forgotten bowl, and a field planted for a party — and how they may have built civilization. From the drunken monkey idea to the oldest beer ever found, from a hymn that is also a beer recipe to the myth about water, this is the accident thesis: beer before bread.
