2,500-Year-Old Booze Brewed Up From Recipe Found In Iron Age Burial: Would you dare drink the forbidden brew?

IFLScience ^ | March 3, 2023 | Laura Simmons

[Bob434]

I can attest to the horrid taste when warm. It left an aftertaste that made a person want to yank their tongue out. But as the saying went. “Beggars can’t be choosers”- so we drank what we could get. The folks we used to work for would so etimes have “beer for guests” that they stored in their basement or s9mething, and it was usually warm... blech!

[null and void]

Perfect!

[Bob434]

looks like motor oil can lol

[Lazamataz]

LOL post of the day

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Buckhorn beer (Olympia’s bargain brand) was pretty bad. The best you could say about it was that it was no worse warm than cold.

[The Great RJ]

Ah Buckhorn beer the nectar of my misspent youth. However, during the 1980s I remember generic beer. It came in a white can with a black stencil label that just said BEER. Sold at the local grocery for like $3 a six pack. Suitable only as a lawn mower beer on a hot afternoon

[Sawdring]

The display table appears to not be level.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember BEER. I think it was made by the Lucky brewery. Bohemia was another cheapo (89 cents a sixpack when I was in high school), and Heidelberg. The last $5 24-pack I got was Heidelberg, in the early 80s.

Yep, I drank my share of cheap beer back then. Rainier Ale was 6% alcohol and cheaper than Bud. Different times.

[Bob434]

lol- sounds delicious

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

An interesting recipe just the same.

It is.

Brewer Yeast for B12, meadowsweet for aspirin and settle your stomach , mint to soothing the tummy and freshen the breath, all in a lightly alcoholic (small beer) liquid to re-hydrate and give a light dose of ethanol.

That is a hangover remedy if I have ever heard one. All that is lacking is the plate of scrambled eggs with hot sauce and some dry toast.

[Grimmy]

Beer ain’t a liquor!

That article sounds like it was written by a (shudder) wine drinker.

[TigersEye]

LOL

I always found the best hangover remedy for me was to find an open leftover beer, without a cigarette butt in it, and drink some of that flat warm swill.

That’s the only thing that ever worked for me. Thank goodness that’s all 4+ decades behind me. :)

[Chainmail]

I liked Biere LaRue 33 (I.e; “Tiger Piss”) but then again, it was cold and I was a lot younger back then.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I am a two drink max person myself which was why I was the designated driver from college on.

Got my (soft) drinks for free and no hangover. :0)

[TigersEye]

Well, ... I can’t help it if you’re smarter than me! lol

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My cousin was the county sheriff. A DUI or D&D would have meant a Talk with my aunt. I would have done (or not done) anything to have avoided that.

[Bob434]

lol cat urine- nothing more foul smelling in my opinion- not sure i coulda drank that

[Chainmail]

Puts hair on your chest - and a maybe everywhere else too. We also used to steal huge cans of pineapple from the mess hall and then ferment the juice over a three-day period and then pour it through clean T-shirt to "filter" it. Then we had a Corpsman standing by with his aid bag while we drank it.

Those were the days!

[Bob434]

ive drank beer from a can the next mornign that had cigarettes in it and not barfed- but cat wiz smell? Uggh-