Photo: East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice
Posted on 11/07/2021 8:37:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Czech scientists have made a unique discovery suggesting that the oldest herbal millet beer could have been brewed in Bohemia. They came across the evidence while studying a 3000-year-old bronze vessel, unearthed in the village of Kladina in 2017.
The bronze vessel was discovered four years ago in a forest near the East Bohemian town of Pardubice. It was decorated with motifs of sun discs and swans, and is believed to have been hidden underground as an offering to the deities.
Archaeologist Martin Golec says similar bronze vessels have been found in Europe before. However, Czech archaeologists were the first ones to explore the content, storing the inner layers of the vessel for further research:
“The archaeologists saw remnants of sediment at the bottom when they pulled out the vessel from the ground. There was dirt residue both on the inside and outside. The chemist, who took the samples, thought it could be cereal grains, and indeed he was able to find a chemical fingerprint of millet.”
What the experts discovered was a substance called miliacin, considered to be an indicator of millet. They also detected traces of different herbs and cooked potato starch. This led them to believe that our ancestors used the vessel to make bitter herbal beer.
Following the discovery, chemist Lukáš Kučera from the University of Olomouc decided to brew the beer based on the old recipe. The beer is based on millet, wormwood and wild yeast.
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Spoiler alert: Starch extraction started at least 30,000 years ago, based on residues from mortars/pestles etc. Just not from potatoes, at least, not in Europe.
How the hell did that error get in there?
So did these ancient Czechs use their time machine to get the potatoes locally or did they have UFOs to make the trip to South America in their own time?
Not sure, but I’m sure if we peel back the...
Hey, what do you expect from a country named for a corn-based cereal? Geez.
Sheesh! The archeologists have no respect! They dug up your old kitchen and stole your beer pot!
I am as disappointed as when I saw fields of corn in the Lord of the rings movie.
Well there’s a new twist on pre-Columbian contact theories...
Maybe the pre-Incans sent potatoes to the Olmecs who traded them with the Chinese (in exchange for teaching them how to make cool looking ink characters), who then gave them to the Egyptians who said, who in the hell wants potato beer? so they sent them into Central Europe to one the Lost Tribes of Israel which was hiding out in Bohemia (before moving to Utah), who then gave them to the Steppe people in Russia who then invented vodka.
This reporter could be on to something!
UFOs were an essential part of ancient transcontinental trade. Everybody knows that. Sheesh.
As some Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe
Sounds like no one was keeping an *eye* on that Leif Erikson!
With the wormwood, maybe it is an early version of absinthe?
When I first read their boner last night, I looked up ancient european starch or something like that, found some papers about it, and wormwood was just one of the source plants (others included wheat, which is used to make starch in Europe today, along with the more common corn) used to make starch. Since they were always looking for food sources, figuring out processing and prepping foods, and finding ways to get high, it’s not unlikely that they discovered a few of the properties of wormwood. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, btw.
I bet that beer tasted like the horse had diabetes.
Heh heh... that’s vivid...
Groan.
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”
Ouch! (I have tried it, but I don’t like licorice. Overproof nasty stuff)
Probably something like Arrowroot. You find it in the shallows of european ponds. Its used for thickening soups or making cookies.
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