Determining recipes for some of the world's oldest preserved beers

Phys.Org ^ | 03-04-2015 | Provided by American Chemical Society

[Scrambler Bob]

Hmmm. Study science later.

[Beowulf9]

Interesting article:)

[Army Air Corps]

It’ll take a while to digest the findings.

[molson209]

Do I have to say again what I think of Beer ? LOL

[Buckeye McFrog]

They’ll spend a few hundred thou to re-create it, only to discover the taste is a dead-on ringer for Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Interesting!

[jonno]

“Sir, we got the lab report on the ancient beer...”

“Two parts sperm whale p!ss - what!!??”

[Red Badger]

Even an ancient sailor, shipwrecked for years on a deserted island, with nothing to eat but fish and drink rain water would not drink that!...................

[Red Badger]

I would have to try ALL of them to make sure of my ‘findings’..................

[Red Badger]

I can understand how wine came about, probably accidentally, thousands of years ago, grape juice fermented in the storage containers and produced alcoholic wine.

But, how did they ancients, the Egyptians most likely, INVENT BEER? The process is fairly complicated and involves research and trial and error to get the final product just right. One does not ‘accidentally’ make beer...............................

Another thing is that practically every culture that has ever existed, even to Amazonian natives in the jungles of Brazil, has produced some sort of alcoholic drink, even the Inuits and Eskimos. Some involved using fermented fish heads while others chewed up a starchy root and spit it into a container to ferment....................

[gr8eman]

LOL...no...I don’t think savage Vikings could be that crass as to devise such a disgusting creation!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Even an ancient sailor, shipwrecked for years on a deserted island, with nothing to eat but fish and drink rain water would not drink that!...................

Brewskis, Brewskis everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

[Red Badger]

The vilest beer I ever had, oddly enough, came from Germany. A Rauchbier........smoke beer, literally, tasted like a burned out tire.....................

[JimRed]

Some involved using fermented fish heads while others chewed up a starchy root and spit it into a container to ferment....................

With fish heads there's a fine line between fermented and rotten...

[JimRed]

The vilest beer I ever had, oddly enough, came from Germany.

Have you tried He-Brew? From Israel, I think. Strong and (to my taste) undrinkably bitter.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[CJ Wolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV36ytSgC3o

This explains eventually how one accidently makes beer.

[a fool in paradise]

Somewhere boxed in my library I have a brewing book from the mid-1800s. Bought it for a dollar in the 90s.

[Bigg Red]

Maybe Dogfish Head will do some of this. I hope.