Drunk Peruvians Torched Ancient Brewery

Discovery Channel ^ | 11-15-05 | Jennifer Viegas

[1rudeboy]

Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building as part of a complicated abandonment ritual . . . .

Let me be the first to type, Peruvians ROCK!

[OSHA]

Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building

I've done that hundreds of times.

[crazyhorse691]

Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building

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Saw the same thing happen in an Okie bar when they ran out of beer.

[Mr. Blonde]

Here in Oklahoma we don't expect much, but running out of beer is totally unacceptable.

[AntiGuv]

How the heck do they know it was an "abandonment ritual"?? Maybe they all just got plastered and someone tipped over a candle..

[tet68]

Hmmm. No mention of the fact that the "Elite" women
masticate the corn in order to start the fermentation
process.

Mmmmmmm.

[decal]

Rama-lama-ping-pong.


Wished budmillercoors were Wari, but then I'm a beer snob...

[muawiyah]

I've been to such parties but had no idea they were a complex abandonment ceremony!

There's a great depicition of this in one of the Indiana Jones movies.

[Namyak]

"Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'"

[This Just In]

Must have been the altitude.

[GOP_1900AD]

Coming some day to a micro brewery somewhere ...

[metmom]

I was wondering what these guys were drinking themselves when they came up with this farfetched idea. Did you ever noitce that to these historians who fabricate these historical events, EVERYTHING is some sort of "religious ritual"? They just had a party of rich people that got out of hand and the fire dept didn't make it in time.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

In Bolivia they still make chicha by women masticating corn, spitting the corn into a large crock and let it ferment. They do put cheese cloth over the crock during fermentation. This keeps out most flies.

[Xenalyte]

Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building as part of a complicated abandonment ritual, according to a new study.

So a lot like our usual Saturday night!

[Grizzled Bear]

"Elite" women.



"Women with teeth."

[Verginius Rufus]

Shouldn't these "elite women" be called "brewmistresses" rather than "brewmasters"? The building was probably torched by the Peruvian Anti-Saloon League.

Next we need a report that chicha helps protect against some kind of cancer or against heart disease.

[Billthedrill]

"Chicha was thought of as a life-giving liquid. It was offered to the fertility and Earth goddess Pachamama."

Honest, I'm not just drinking beer for myself. I'm a acolyte of Pachamama, that's what. Woohoo!

[Threepwood]

Heh. You obviously haven't met too many archaeologists. Everything they find, everything, is either a toilet or a temple. Trust me on this one, archaeology is just a tiny bit more of an art than a science.

[nralife]

"Heh. You obviously haven't met too many archaeologists. Everything they find, everything, is either a toilet or a temple."



I believe you. One of these days someone may claim the Statue of Liberty is some kind of Goddess. That is if something like the Planet of the Apes scenario ever comes to pass