Why did it take so long to invent Ginger Beer?

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Recently I've been brewing ginger beer for fun, because I love naturally carbonated drinks. I then decided to look up when ginger beer was invented, & a cursory google search showed Yorkshire in the 1700s.

I don't know why but this seems very odd to me. We have known about ginger for thousands of years. Why did it not occur to anyone to ferment it in a drink? Did it have to do with the perception of ginger at the time? Or is it just a case where something so simple was simply invented recently out of happenstance. Or is the Yorkshire theory wrong & there are precursors to ginger beer?

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