fococlimber
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Aged 9,000 Years, Ancient Beer Finally Hits Stores!
Found this from a friend, thought I should share! NPR!
Found this from a friend, thought I should share! NPR!
What is it made of? I looked on their website and basically found the NPR article, but not a list of ingredients contained in the recipe.
Inspired by a beverage found in clay posts in China around 9000 years ago. In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers used pre-gelatinized rice flakes, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers. The rice and barley malt were added together to make the mash for starch conversion and degradation. The resulting sweet wort was then run into the kettle. The honey, grapes, Hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers were then added. The entire mixture was boiled for 45 minutes, and then cooled. The resulting sweet liquid was pitched with a fresh culture of Sake yeast and allowed to ferment a month before the transfer into a chilled secondary tank.
The molecular evidence told McGovern the vessels from China once contained an alcoholic beverage made of rice, grapes, hawthorn berries, honey and chrysanthemum flowers.
"What we found is something that was turning up all over the world from these early periods," he says. "We don't have just a wine or a beer or a mead, but we have like a combination of all three."
You are thinking of chamber pots.Weren't crock pots the porta-potties of pre-flushing days?
I am drinking a 60 minute at the moment and I think it is very good. A malty sweet beginning and a long, complex hops finish. I like the 90 minute too. Haven't had the ancient reissue beverage, but I agree that it sounds like that particular piece of crockery was re-used a bit.
John
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