1 posted on
08/12/2007 4:39:12 PM PDT by
blam
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To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
08/12/2007 4:39:42 PM PDT by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam; monkapotamus; All
Hey Monk you know want to know how Looter guy ancestors enjoy their beer LOL!
3 posted on
08/12/2007 4:41:54 PM PDT by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: blam
4 posted on
08/12/2007 4:42:04 PM PDT by
RichInOC
("Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."--Benjamin Franklin)
To: blam
The purpose of agriculture was to enable the making of beer.
Think about it. An early agricultural community, raising wheat. Would you prefer to exist on bread, or make beer with it to trade for meat from every passing hunter?
5 posted on
08/12/2007 4:47:50 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Open Season rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI)
To: blam
Considering a second career, blam?
7 posted on
08/12/2007 4:52:08 PM PDT by
labette
To: blam
To: blam
They should make their own microbrew and call it “Bronze Age Brew” or “Bronze Age Ale”. It would sell.
11 posted on
08/12/2007 5:08:04 PM PDT by
SIDENET
("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred")
To: blam
The archaeologists' experiment is described in detail in next month's edition of the magazine, Archaeology Ireland. "Experiment"? Hell, it sounds like a good excuse to get plastered.
That's my kind of experiment!
13 posted on
08/12/2007 5:10:12 PM PDT by
SIDENET
("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred")
To: GOP_Raider
Ping. Must be ancient beer month!
15 posted on
08/12/2007 5:15:55 PM PDT by
dynachrome
(Henry Bowman is right.)
To: blam
What did the Bronze Age bucko use for smokes?
17 posted on
08/12/2007 5:25:49 PM PDT by
Peelod
(I do renounce Hillary! and all her pomps and works.)
To: knews_hound
Howza bout a Homebrewer’s ping?
19 posted on
08/12/2007 5:30:09 PM PDT by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: blam
20 posted on
08/12/2007 5:32:57 PM PDT by
Between the Lines
(I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
To: blam
Also remember that beer is food. Beer has a lot of calories, and is a lot easier to make than barley bread, which is a pain and involves a lot of hard work.
Barley does have the advantage that it is easier to malt, which means to germinate then dry before the plant grows. This produces the enzymes needed to convert its carbohydrates to sugars, which are needed for brewing.
It also grows in cold and salty ground, even colder than where rye will grow.
So either you have to dry it, hull it, grind it, etc., to make bread, or just mash it up for beer.
To: blam
Better living through archaeology!
23 posted on
08/12/2007 5:36:40 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: blam
The men have since made two more batches of beer - the second was stronger and the third was "a disaster" - but they have started work on batch number four which the hope will taste as good as their first. It makes me wonder if there is something magic about yeast, because that parallels my experience as a teenager.
My Irish grandmother was reminiscing about Prohibition. she lived in PA at the time, and "Felt sorry for her German neighbors who missed their beer".
So she regaled us with "Taking a can of Blue Ribbon Hop Flavored Barley Malt syrup, five pounds of sugar and five gallons of water and a yeast cake and...."
At some point that Spring, puzzled by the sudden popularity of the neighborhood nerd, my sister discovered our "Down by the pond" brewery, capping machine nailed to a stump, and a covered pottery vessel liberated from the cellar. She squealed. My father busted us, and was yelling and lecturing. The bottles were on strings, floating low in the pond, and were staying a pleasant 50° or so.
I pulled one in and opened it and handed it to him.
His eyes popped out and he said, "GEt all this stuff into the cellar!!"
I made it for years, and actually miss it, when I remember it. I may just dust off the old skills..it was full bodied and very malty, no doubt not a Great Beer, but still...
I wonder if that malt syrup is still around? It was a large can with (haha) Muffin recipes on the side!
28 posted on
08/12/2007 5:44:56 PM PDT by
Gorzaloon
(Food imported from China = Cesspool + Flavr-Straw™)
To: blam
Why can’t I do “scientific” research projects like this? [I’m a geologist, I can only study what kinds of rocks the prehistoric men threw at each other when they were drunk]
31 posted on
08/12/2007 6:06:44 PM PDT by
rockprof
To: blam
What I would like to know is how it only took three days to brew the beer?
33 posted on
08/12/2007 6:42:47 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: blam
The guy on the right reminds me of Martin Short!
34 posted on
08/12/2007 6:46:28 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: blam
"Yeah, so we like to loosen up a bit after work. Got a problem with that?"
To: blam
In Bolivia they make a corn beer.
Women masticate the corn and spit it into a crock.
They do put cheese cloth over it to keep out most bugs while it is fermenting.
Nasty stuff.
39 posted on
08/12/2007 7:25:49 PM PDT by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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