And so I think moving, uh, back to the, the history side of things, um, uh, Nick, I would like to talk to you about, um, the, the image and, um, can you just tell me about, like, the image of our cover story? Like, who is this person? What's he doing? And what does the scene tell us about how people were managing brewing safety before the discovery of germ theory?

So what we actually have is a book whose title is so German, I'm not gonna try to pronounce it 'cause I'm gonna get it wrong.

But effectively, these brothers in Nuremberg were illustrating their town, and the jobs of the people and everything in it.

And what we have here is kind of an iconic image of the practicality of what this man is doing.

Um, you know, back then you had this idea that you would start out as an apprentice, then become a journeyman, then a master, and so this is a master brewer, and his job is to keep the, the city fed with beer.

Now, the, the, the town of Nuremberg itself was fairly advanced as a Middle Ages, uh, city, and you can tell by the fact that there's art and there's specialized fields, right? You know, a few centuries earlier, they were hand to mouth avoiding the, the Bubonic plague.

So this is kind of a, almost a, a peaceful scene of a man at work.

And Nick, can you talk briefly through the, uh, history of brewing as explained in your essay, just from the, the early days through the, uh, German laws that limited ingredients to pasteurization?

And can you just tell me about like the image of our cover story? Like, who is this person? What's he doing? And what does the scene tell us about how people were managing brewing safety before the discovery of germ theory?

So what we actually have is a book whose title is so German, I'm not going to try to pronounce it because I'm going to get it wrong.

But effectively, these brothers in Nuremberg were illustrating their town and the jobs of the people and everything in it.

And what we have here is kind of an iconic image of the practicality of what this man is doing.

Um, you know, back then you had this idea that you would start out as an apprentice and become a journeyman and then a master.

And so this is a master blower and his job is to keep the city fed with beer.

Now, the town of Nuremberg itself was fairly advanced as a Middle Ages city.

And Nick, can you talk briefly through the history of brewing as explained in your essay, just from the early days through the German laws that limited ingredients to pasteurization?