Did early Southwestern Indians ferment corn and make beer?

www.physorg.com ^ | 12/04/07 | Sandia National Laboratory

[PeterPrinciple]

Honestly I have always wanted to make just start leaving fruits and veggies out for long periods of time to start the fermentation process and make my own home brew. It’s be a smelly operation though.

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When I was in Ivory Coast Africa, all the palm trees were cut off at about 4 ft high. Dumb me asked why all the trees grew that way. He explained the fine point of making palm wine. Top of tree was to the ground with cut off point 4 ft high, leaving a natural container to ferment in. Come back a few weeks later and drain the trunk into your used oil containers and bicycle back into town with a smile on your face.

[hunter112]

Not beer, corn liquor. Know affectionately to the Native Americans as “firewater”.

Without distillation, there's no way that a fermented beverage would have the necessary alcohol content to become "firewater". It was called so, because if spat upon a campfire, it would flare up if it were 50% alcohol, being 100 percent proof that it was indeed a potent potable.

[wolfcreek]

“The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty.”

The Europeans with their OCPD thought the Indains to abuse alcohol.

[Red Badger]

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?........

[dynachrome]

Weak beer and home brew ping in one.
This stuff sounds pretty bad.

[Old Professer]

Tizwin, sounds onomatopoetic.

[Zakeet]

Not beer, corn liquor. Know affectionately to the Native Americans as “firewater”.

And known affectionately to Pale Faces as Bourbon.

[advertising guy]

bingo that.....firewater.........I know.
I’m German / Cherokee........the problem with that
is everytime I get drunk, I wanna scalp myself

[x]

If they did, I'd like to see that recipe. It's really hard to make beer from corn. You can make whiskey from corn, but beer is made from mainly barley.

They may be calling any undistilled alcoholic beverage "beer."

Chicha, the Inca beverage made out of corn is an example.

It wouldn't pass the German legal standard for beer, but it's sometimes called a "corn beer".

Kvass, the undistilled Russian beverage made out of fermented rye bread may be another example.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Gimme another redman! Hic!

[wolfcreek]

Right!

[fish hawk]

What’s funny about that? I’m Indian and I still don’t know or want to know what a rake or hoe is. LOL (or a lawn mower)

[Kevmo]

bmflr

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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

[A Longer Name]

Kvass, the undistilled Russian beverage made out of fermented rye bread may be another example.

Kvass is not an alcoholic beverage.

[nomorelurker]

self ping for later

[4yearlurker]

Okay. Let’s call it humorous. The reason you don’t want to know what a rake or hoe is because we now have supermarkets.

[GOP_Raider]

(My apologies for this being a little late, our black lab passed away this afternoon.)

Beer Ping!

A low to medium ping list aimed at all of us who, well, love our beer…

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout to be added or struck from the list…

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Sorry to hear about your dog. I lost my second Black Lab last month, and the first one this time last year. They were old, but it still sucks.

Go drown your sorrows for a while but remember that tomorrow is another day. ;)

P.S. That “Beer Hunter” sure looks like Mitt Romney, LOL!

[GOP_Raider]

Our black lab was just a shade over 12 years old and had a gigantic tumor removed from her hind leg about 6 months ago only to have it grow back bigger and badder. We got her when I was 15. My mom ended up taking her to the vet yesterday and according to her, she was fighting the vets from injecting her and, in turn, putting her to sleep.

My mom was pretty inconsolable today, since she picked her out of the litter we were looking at getting a black lab pup and it ended up being her that watched her be put to sleep. It’s been a pretty sad day.

[SunkenCiv]

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