[blam]

GGG Ping.

[SevenofNine]

Hey Monk you know want to know how Looter guy ancestors enjoy their beer LOL!

[RichInOC]

“Unnngh!”

[”Brilliant!]

[SauronOfMordor]

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?

[labette]

Considering a second career, blam?

[Constantine XIII]

[SIDENET]

They should make their own microbrew and call it “Bronze Age Brew” or “Bronze Age Ale”. It would sell.

[SIDENET]

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!

[dynachrome]

Ping. Must be ancient beer month!

[Peelod]

What did the Bronze Age bucko use for smokes?

[Grizzled Bear]

Howza bout a Homebrewer’s ping?

[Between the Lines]

[Popocatapetl]

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.

[Coyoteman]

Better living through archaeology!

[Gorzaloon]

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!

[rockprof]

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]

[Red_Devil 232]

What I would like to know is how it only took three days to brew the beer?

[Red_Devil 232]

The guy on the right reminds me of Martin Short!

[Larry Lucido]

"Yeah, so we like to loosen up a bit after work. Got a problem with that?"

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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.