4,000 year-old recipes? I’d be stuffed after 2 dozen, no doubt.
LOL! And that reminds me of some discontinued humor, a Michael Jackson joke. Thanks a fool in paradise.
Posted on 11/18/2019 6:29:18 AM PST by C19fan
“Beer without hops, I wonder how it tasted?”
Like Budweiser...?
Or any other mass produced American “beer”.
https://www.brewersofpa.org/alternatives-to-hops/
Almost all beers had some sort of preservative adjunct.
I tried a very small batch with no hops and it did not taste like beer. Was malty. No bitterness. Bland. It went bad very quickly. Only had a few bottles before it turned into swill.
Fun fact: IPAs were so heavily hopped so they would survive the long trip from GB to India jostled all the way on the high seas.
Beer, helping ugly people breed since 4,000 BC.
LOL!
Brewed from grain makes it beer. Hops came much later, with an assist from the Protestant Reformation.
Plus the making of beer allows the grain to survive the months before the next harvest.
“Hey sweety, make me a Babylony sammy!”
Google “small beer”. Fermentation was proven to make it less likely you’d get sick from the drinking water, this was more about the lack of water sanitation than beer snobbery.
“Wonder what Babylonians would think of Busch beer....”
They’d probably think that was the stuff they threw out after they were done making real beer.
Yeah, even the kids drank beer, but it was usually “small beer”, kind of like what you can buy in Utah.
I guess you could call it “barley wine”.
My grandma always told me to eat beets for iron.
4,000 year-old recipes? I’d be stuffed after 2 dozen, no doubt.
LOL! And that reminds me of some discontinued humor, a Michael Jackson joke. Thanks a fool in paradise.
I believe it was the boiling of the mash that killed the buggers.
Not thick enough for ‘em.
Sumerian beer was more like a soup.
A second for what Little Ray said — their beer was more like soup, same goes for ancient Egyptian beer (for the most part).
Regarding beer from ye olde tymes:
“Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier
Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer.
Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall
And when ye’re hot drink Strong or none at all.
An honest soldier never is forgot
Whether he dieth by musket or by pot.”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vy9DCPB4A6A/Stkceh0s_LI/AAAAAAAAAA8/QjQEhOIb67Q/s1600-h/winchester.jpg
http://theroadofhappydestiny.blogspot.com/2009/10/who-is-hampshire-grenadier.html
I’m guessing that the missing ingredient in most of these recipes: bugs
Beer was currency on planet earth for many centuries
Very interesting info.
Wouldnt mind sampling the dishes.
(As an aside— pretty sure no need to excerpt NPR)
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