Posted on 03/13/2023 8:39:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bones, ancient grooming tools, even gold – these are all things you might expect to find if you go poking around an Iron Age burial site. What you might not expect to find is your new favorite tipple. But, back in 2016, archaeologists were stunned to uncover a 2,500-year-old cauldron that contained the remnants of an ancient alcoholic beverage.
Project lead Bettina Arnold, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was investigating a burial mound – called a tumulus – dating back to between 400 and 450 BCE, when she and her team came across what appeared to be a bronze cauldron. But it wasn’t only the vessel itself that was largely intact...
That contents amounted to nearly 14 liters (3.7 gallons) of an unknown alcoholic beverage, that had been buried along with the occupant of the tumulus. As the researchers explained in a blog post, the cauldron full of booze, as well as the weapons he had been interred with... we can see how arriving in the afterlife with 14 liters of liquor could help with that.
Of course, the only logical next step for the team was to figure out if they could make some of the ancient brew and taste it for themselves. They enlisted the services of palaeobotanist Dr Manfred Rösch, who was able to analyze the cauldron contents and come up with a rough idea of the recipe...
The beverage was determined to have most likely been a type of mead called a braggot, whose origins go back way into the distant past, long before Chaucer mentioned it in his Canterbury Tales. And, luckily for Arnold and the team, one of the cellarmasters at local Milwaukee beer producers the Lakefront Brewery, Chad Sheridan, had a fair amount of experience brewing this particular drink.
(Excerpt) Read more at iflscience.com ...
I can attest to the horrid taste when warm. It left an aftertaste that made a person want to yank their tongue out. But as the saying went. “Beggars can’t be choosers”- so we drank what we could get. The folks we used to work for would so etimes have “beer for guests” that they stored in their basement or s9mething, and it was usually warm... blech!
Perfect!
LOL post of the day
Buckhorn beer (Olympia’s bargain brand) was pretty bad. The best you could say about it was that it was no worse warm than cold.
Ah Buckhorn beer the nectar of my misspent youth. However, during the 1980s I remember generic beer. It came in a white can with a black stencil label that just said BEER. Sold at the local grocery for like $3 a six pack. Suitable only as a lawn mower beer on a hot afternoon
The display table appears to not be level.
I remember BEER. I think it was made by the Lucky brewery. Bohemia was another cheapo (89 cents a sixpack when I was in high school), and Heidelberg. The last $5 24-pack I got was Heidelberg, in the early 80s.
Yep, I drank my share of cheap beer back then. Rainier Ale was 6% alcohol and cheaper than Bud. Different times.
lol- sounds delicious
It is.
Brewer Yeast for B12, meadowsweet for aspirin and settle your stomach , mint to soothing the tummy and freshen the breath, all in a lightly alcoholic (small beer) liquid to re-hydrate and give a light dose of ethanol.
That is a hangover remedy if I have ever heard one. All that is lacking is the plate of scrambled eggs with hot sauce and some dry toast.
Beer ain’t a liquor!
That article sounds like it was written by a (shudder) wine drinker.
LOL
I always found the best hangover remedy for me was to find an open leftover beer, without a cigarette butt in it, and drink some of that flat warm swill.
That’s the only thing that ever worked for me. Thank goodness that’s all 4+ decades behind me. :)
I liked Biere LaRue 33 (I.e; “Tiger Piss”) but then again, it was cold and I was a lot younger back then.
Got my (soft) drinks for free and no hangover. :0)
Well, ... I can’t help it if you’re smarter than me! lol
lol cat urine- nothing more foul smelling in my opinion- not sure i coulda drank that
Those were the days!
ive drank beer from a can the next mornign that had cigarettes in it and not barfed- but cat wiz smell? Uggh-
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