Posted on 06/10/2009 7:53:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
This summer, how would you like to lean back in your lawn chair and toss back a brew made from what may be the world’s oldest recipe for beer? Called Chateau Jiahu, this blend of rice, honey and fruit was intoxicating Chinese villagers 9,000 years ago—long before grape wine had its start in Mesopotamia.
University of Pennsylvania molecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern first described the beverage in 2005 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on chemical traces from pottery in the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Northern China. Soon after, McGovern called on Sam Calagione at the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Del., to do the ancient recipe justice. Later this month, you can give it a try when a new batch hits shelves across the country. The Beer Babe blog was impressed, writing that it is “very smooth,” and “not overly sweet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
*PING*
Awesome!!
/cheers
If its at all even remotely similar to sake...I don’t want it. Sake has got to be the WORST form of alcohol ever invented by man. I’ll drink mad dog or thunderbird before I’ll drink the best quality sake.
I’ll stick to Yuengling, thank you.
Well the headline lies, the brew isn’t 9,000 years old, just the recipe. Not that 9,000 yo beer would be worth a damn but truth in advertising is important, especially when we are talking about BEER!
I'll have to try some, just because, but I'm happy with what 9000 years of experimentation with grains, hops, yeasts and water has done for the excellent micro-brews that friends produce. Progress, is, after all, progress.
/johnny
>> If its at all even remotely similar to sake...I don’t want it. Sake has got to be the WORST form of alcohol ever invented by man. I’ll drink mad dog or thunderbird before I’ll drink the best quality sake.
Gotta agree with you. I like pretty much every sort of Japanese food and drink... except sake. Blech.
I carry the Dogfish IPA 60 and 90... I’m looking foward to it.
Is it anything like Unfiltered Sake? That is the best Sake.
Ahh.... Good news for a change.
As a home brewer, I’ll try any brew at least once.
That's where they lose every last single Celiac or gluten intolerant (3.4% of the population) person in the country.
Been to a few bars where the beer tasted 9,000 years old.
parsy, hiccup
The honey and the fruit make it mead.
Guess this beats “beechwood aging”.
It tastes like warm Zima to me. Not bad.
parsy, who ain’t that picky
“Was one a good year?”
It ain’t beer unless it has hops and at least a little bit of some kind of malted grain. Once it has those two requirements, they can throw in anything they please and still call it beer...even fruit and honey.
Dang, I’m sittin here drinking Rolling Rock! It is a good beer, isn’t it.
parsy, who is going for another
What do you define as “faux beer recipe”?
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