Posted on 06/14/2011 1:29:50 PM PDT by decimon
New study unveils archaeobotanical evidence of beer brewing in Iron Age France
Evidence of beer making in Mediterranean France, as far back as the 5th century BC, has been unearthed by Laurent Bouby from the CNRS - Centre de Bio-Archeologie et d'Ecology in Montepellier, France, and colleagues. Their analyses at the Roquepertuse excavation site in Provence reveal the presence of poorly preserved barley grains suggesting germination, as well as equipment and other remains of deliberate malting in the home. Taken together, these findings suggest that, as well as regular wine making, the French had an early passion for beer brewing. The work has just been published online in Springer's journal Human Ecology.
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Provincial pleasures ping.
They found kegs marked Joe Kennedy. I kid you not!!
/johnny
Just don’t tell me that the French invented beer. I’d be heartbroke..
Grain was probably invented because early brewers were sick and tired getting their butts stung off while harvesting honey for mead.
Based on my research during culinary school (yes, I got credit for studying zymurgy), I would say that beer or something similar, ie... malted barley steeped in water and fermented to produce a drink/slurry, was probably invented near Mesopotamia or somewhere in the Fertile Cresent, where the ancestor of barley first appeared.
So, no, the french didn't invent it. But the Belgian monks made it dangerous. ;)
/johnny
Beer is God’s way of saying he loves us.
I agree with this and the tag line.
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Of course they had beer, beer was invented way before wine, besides you can grow grain almost every where and harvest it each and every year, whereas grapes take 5 years or so to start producing fruit.
And why shouldn’t they ? Beer was, (and remains), a diet staple rendering the sugars and nutrients of grains to be digested. Brewing is also a faster process than vinting while offering its dross as livestock feed.
Brewing is among the first of man’s “civilized” activities. As archelogy discovers them ancient recipes are being reproduced. Today one can sip upon the same quaffs Assyrians, Cretans, Egyptians and many other cultures enjoyed thanks to craft and cache breweries and hobbiests. >PS
That’s serious beer supplies man. I just got finished with my last bottle of Mead out of the five gallons I made. I think I’m switching to Mead making, it’s easy and delicious to drink. Also, I’m about five ten miles from the Mahdavi honey company which produces fine Colorado mountain honey. Actually the bees produce the honey but you get the picture.
Chapeau! to Decimon and Sunken Civ for the Ping.
French beer is excellent. Wish I were sitting at a cafe terrace with a glass right now.
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I will experience this in the near future as I'll be spending seventeen days in France. Fingers crossed I meet a pleasant jolie femme, who is also a practicing Roman-Catholic.
quelle horreur! beer?
French vodka...is best!!
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” - Benjamin Franklin
“sharia is proof that allah hates us and wants us to suffer” - nully
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