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Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer [ancient Celtic malt beverage]
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| Friday, January 14th, 2011
| Bruce Bower
Posted on 01/18/2011 6:27:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Henbane?!?
yeesh. Mix that with gruit and you got a doozy of a drink. Especially if you use unwashed heather. I found a recipe for gruit once and went to an herb store to round up the stuff and when I gave them a list of the stuff the lady looked at me like I was ted bundy and wanted to know why I need THAT stuff for. that’s when I started doing a little more research on the ingredients.
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posted on
01/18/2011 9:21:39 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: barbarianbabs
Liquid bread to be more precise.
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posted on
01/18/2011 9:46:24 PM PST
by
magslinger
(Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
To: buccaneer81
I was just going to say that they’ve been brewing Iron Age beer in Pittsburgh for years—Iron City Beer.
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posted on
01/18/2011 9:55:17 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: ApplegateRanch; All
Could that be one reason for the Berserkers(sp?)
To: gleeaikin
The henbane and wormwood (artemisia/mugwort) might go a long way in that direction. The one is a psychedelic & poison; the other is first cousin to absinthe, with some of the same properties.
And the lactic acid rancid yoghurt taste (I first misread acetic acid) would be enough to drive anyone mad.
Then, at the end of the article:
Perhaps theyll find out whether Roman emperor Julian, in a 1,600-year-old poem, correctly described Celtic beer as smelling like a billy goat.
My guess is it tasted worse than a billy goat, and the main reason the Vikings raided so savagely was in revenge for being served the stuff at their first meeting with the Celts.
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posted on
01/19/2011 12:59:56 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: ApplegateRanch
So Julian the Apostate did one thing correctly?
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posted on
01/19/2011 1:05:46 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: ApplegateRanch
The henbane and wormwood (artemisia/mugwort) might go a long way in that direction. The one is a psychedelic & poison; the other is first cousin to absinthe, with some of the same properties. Wormwood is used today by naturalist to cure all kinds of things especially that have to do with parasites. It is also used against cancer. Maybe this stuff actually kept them healthy. I could imagine that people may have suffered from parasites back then and cancer is certainly no fun. Now a days you can get a purified, stronger version of the active ingredients in a supplement called artimisinin.
http://www.anamed.net/English_Home/anamed_artemisia_programme/Artemisia_and_cancer/artemisia_and_cancer.html
http://www.herbalextractsplus.com/artemisia.cfm
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posted on
01/19/2011 1:38:50 AM PST
by
Bellflower
(Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
To: duffus
Probably all over, just don’t tell the Bureau of Ancient Celtic Beer, Cannibis, and Catapaults.
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posted on
01/19/2011 3:49:45 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Don Carlos
Beer without sediment? What a wacky notion.
That's my drink.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:52:41 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
To: JouleZ; Silentgypsy
Welcome to the most exclusive Ping List on FR !
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posted on
01/19/2011 12:25:55 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
To: SunkenCiv
Sitting here reading this, having a Sam Adams Revolutionary Rye Ale. Tastes great.
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posted on
01/19/2011 2:44:46 PM PST
by
JEC
((Pray for ALL our troops))
To: JEC
A lot of ideas with great staying power emerged because they had no electronic distractions. :’)
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posted on
01/19/2011 6:31:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: barbarianbabs
That is certainly what the ancient Egyptians thought. Weren’t the laborers paid partially in beer rations?
To: knews_hound; All
Man, I discovered a really good beer last night. Plank Heller Weizenbock:
You should try some of this stuff. Delicious and packs quite a whack.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:14:22 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: knews_hound
Your homebrewing sites are impressive! I have to spend more time there reading up, thanks for making them available.
My hubby is the chief brewer in the house but I do have one batch under my belt, (under his supervision of course) of pumpkin beer. It is darker than we prefer but looking forward to trying it.
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posted on
01/21/2011 9:24:50 AM PST
by
spitter
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