The team worked with Peruvian brewers to recreate the ancient chicha recipe used at Cerro Baul. Credit: Donna Nash
Outstanding post! Thank you immensely Sunkenciv!
But if you knew how chicha was made in Peru you probably wouldn't drink it.
I knew it all along. To think - the Sumerians had beer six millennia ago and it took us until 1890 to come up with the bottle cap. And we call this a civilization?
Phil Harding of Time Team would heartily agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61lfmiAMC84 What make a good pub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFg2Nnx8z34 Drinks Saxon recipe ale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPF6NWDFPBQ Phil loves his beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaISF89g0T4 Phil Harding pulling a Hop Back pint
After you’ve enjoyed these snippets, browse through the listing of over 200 Time Team archaeological digs between 1995 and 2005.
Amstel. Stella Artois.
A cool book:
“A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes contains, in a single illustrated volume, over 400 documented historic recipes for ale, beer, mead, metheglin, cider, perry, hypocras, wines, etc., dating from 1800 B.C. to modern times.”
Stay out da Busches! :-)
I’ve never tasted alcohol, but observing a few sections of Cardinal and Cub fans watching a game together, a beer turns everyone into chatty friends.
Dilly dilly!
Jobs, bread, circuses.
And all this time I thought that Amerindians could not tolerate firewater. One day coffee is bad for you. The next day the report comes in on its health benefits. Nothing stays the same.