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A Hundred Jars from a Horse's Hoof: The Rigveda's Other Intoxicant
The Rigveda devotes an entire book to soma. It mentions surā, the grain beer people actually drank, in seven verses, and two of those are disputed. The silence turns out to be the most informative thing about it.