“Dr. Pat,” as he’s known at Dogfish Head, is the world’s foremost expert on ancient fermented beverages, and he cracks long-forgotten recipes with chemistry, scouring ancient kegs and bottles for residue samples to scrutinize in the lab. He has identified the world’s oldest known barley beer (from Iran’s Zagros Mountains, dating to 3400 B.C.), the oldest grape wine (also from the Zagros, circa 5400 B.C.) and the earliest known booze of any kind, a Neolithic grog from China’s Yellow River Valley brewed some 9,000 years ago.More at Smithsonian Magazine
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I heard just the other day, scientists were puzzled by traces of the 1945 antibiotic Tetracycline, found in ancient skeletons. Then they discoved the oldest recipes for beer resulted in a small amount of Tetracycline in the finished product.
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Of course we all know it’s benefits to mental health.