Thanks BenLurkin. They love it long time.
Posted on 05/24/2016 7:14:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Scientists conducted tests on ancient pottery jars and funnels found at the Mijiaya archaeological site in China’s Shaanxi province. The analyses revealed traces of oxalate — a beer-making byproduct that forms a scale called “beerstone” in brewing equipment — as well as residues from a variety of ancient grains and plants. These grains included broomcorn millets, an Asian wild grain known as “Job’s tears,” tubers from plant roots, and barley.
Barley is used to make beer because it has high levels of amylase enzymes that promote the conversion of starches into sugars during the fermenting process. It was first cultivated in western Asia and might have been used to make beer in ancient Sumer and Babylonia more than 8,000 years ago, according to historians
The researchers said it is unclear when beer brewing began in China, but the residues from the 5,000-year-old Mijiaya artifacts represent the earliest known use of barley in the region by about 1,000 years. They also suggest that barley was used to make beer in China long before the cereal grain became a staple food there, the researchers noted.
The prehistoric brewery at the Mijiaya site consisted of ceramic pots, funnels and stoves found in pits that date back to the Neolithic (late Stone Age) Yangshao period, around 3400 to 2900 B.C., said Jiajing Wang, a Ph.D. student at Stanford University...
Wang told Live Science that the discovery of barley in such early artifacts was a surprise to the researchers.
Barley was the main ingredient for beer brewing in other parts of the world, such as in ancient Egypt, she said, and the barley plant might have spread into China along with the knowledge of its special use in making beer.
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Secret ingredient in beer — barley
Secret ingredient in hamburger — beef
Secret ingredient in s milk shake — milk
Salt? Lime?
;-)
Hold muh beer...for 8,000 years.
The hops are the key. All else is balderdash...
I have some Job’s Tears in the pantry.
As a brewer for almost 20 years, I am curious what you mean that anything but hops is balderdash. While hops are indeed critical to a good Beer, malted barley is just as critical. Barley provides the sugars ferment, gives the beer color from light pilsners to dark scouts, and and a myriad of sweet flavors that are balanced by the hops . A good top or bottom for Menting fermenting yeast, maybe some Irish Moss or calcium carbonate and you are good to go.
Oxalates combine with calcium to form kidney stones. Trust me, I know.
Interesting if beer made it there before things like beef and barley soup.
Hops are apparently a late addition to beer.
Founding fathers did not use it, I am told.
The hops are the key. All else is balderdash...
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LOL.
I like a good hoppy ale as much as anyone, but without the other ingredients, hops is, well, just hops.
Thanks BenLurkin. They love it long time.
Sumer 8,000 years ago? More like 6,000, but what’s a couple of thousand years between friends.
The way they make that hopped-up undrinkable microbrew today you’d think they’d never heard of barley.
The history of India Pale Ale is fascinating.
I hope that archeologists of 5000 years of the future don’t dind the Sam Adams brewery. They will study the residues and conclude we humans of today were desperate morons.
I bought a ‘sampler pack’ of some of their ‘specialty brews’ and four out of six were undrinkable. Leading the list was a bottle of what I think was called ‘bar-b-que beer with the flavor of a cookout.” It tastted like drinking an uncleaned smoker grill. Next worse was pumpkin.
Moral of the story: just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you actually have to try it.
Hops. Sometimes it’s a good nights sleep.
:’)
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