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the grain that quietly built beer, whiskey, and half of human civilization while wheat got famous.

ancient credRomans paid gladiators in barley rations
beer backboneMost beer starts as malted, sprouted barley
gladiator grubCalled hordearii, the barley-eating men
tough cropGrows in cold, salty, drought-stricken soils others reject
old timerOne of the first domesticated grains, 10,000 years old
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