Alan D. Eames, 59, Scholar of Beers Around the World, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: February 27, 2007 Alan D. Eames, who cultivated his reputation as “the Indiana Jones of beer” by crawling into Egyptian tombs to read hieroglyphics about beer and voyaging along the Amazon in search of a mysterious lost black brew, died on Feb. 10 at his home in Dummerston, Vt. He was 59. His wife, Sheila, said he died after suffering respiratory failure while he slept. Mr. Eames called himself a beer anthropologist, a role that allowed him to expound on subjects like what he put...