Patrick Ryan Williams/The Field Museum, Chicago
The upright stones were used to support a large brewing vessel where mash was boiled at an ancient brewery in the Andes. Archaeologists say it is 1,000 years old.
Posted on 12/17/2004 10:13:10 PM PST by neverdem
Patrick Ryan Williams/The Field Museum, Chicago
The upright stones were used to support a large brewing vessel where mash was boiled at an ancient brewery in the Andes. Archaeologists say it is 1,000 years old.
Alex Maltman...?
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Beer....the intelligent choice.
vump for later
My current favorite is Honkers Ale. Mmmmmmm
Making your own beer is easy and fun.
Took me 3 beers to get through that.
My wife and I spent a couple of weeks visiting Ireland last year and we discoverd that Guiness tastes better when brewed with home waters.
I had a friend that was a obsessive home brewer, and he had my well water tested and said it was almost a match for the Bass plant in Leeds. To make his pale ale he would trade me a six pack for 10 gallons of water.
I almost cried when he moved away.
Maltman?...........yep, just like Mr. Chandler might make candles, and Mr. Cooper barrels.
Yeah, you must have suffered when that ended.
Why must you post an article to make me thirsty at 9:19AM?It is Saterday and I really don't have a whole lot to do today but there's just something a little too "white trash" about cracking a beer before breakfast.
The water was also rich in sulfates, which acted as a preservative, allowing the beer to be shipped to distant locations, even India - the Burton beers were called India pale ales, or I.P.A. for short. "The I.P.A. style came about because of the geology on which Burton was sited," Dr. Maltman said.
It surprised me to see such an error from an otherwise interesting, if unproven article. It makes me suspect a great deal of his conclusions, as I thought that this was pretty common knowledge among beer snobs.
I.P.A indeed get's it's name from the Empire shipping beers that far. But it gets it's bitterness from the hops, which is also a natural preservative. They LOADED the ales with hops to make the long ship's journeys - which is why a true I.P.A. is usually considerably more bitter than any other ale.
I now return myself to MY regularly scheduled ale - today it's an Old Fezziwig's, in honor of the season.
In fact, it's noon here - so cheers!
Beer and Bread - the two pillars on which all human civilization rest.
Unless it's July and you're on a Colorado River camping and boating weekend....6 a.m. suds are in order, and in fact expected.
I have a friend from Ireland here (Chicago), and he refuses to drink Guiness until he goes back.
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