Just read the news about the evidence of beer believed to have been brewed in the UK, dating back more than 2,000 years. Signs of the iron age brew from about 400BC were identified in fragments of charred residues from the beer-making process.
Well I for one will raise a glass to an unknown forebear. But for happenchance I might be stuck here forced to quaff a red wine or some other inferior concoction rather than a fine ale. So here's to you ancient brewer. You did us all a service we'll never forget.