Beer History
Obvious beer fact of the day: Beer has a LONG history. 10,000 year old bottle of beer found in ship wreck. Dogfish Head brews Midas Touch, a beer based on a Turkish recipe found in drinking vessels in the tomb of King Midas.
PhysOrg.com recently posted an article about a brewery dating back to 500 B.C. Cheers to history.
PhysOrg.com — A scientist studying an ancient Celtic site believes he has worked out the recipe they used for making beer around the year 500 BC.
Dr Hans-Peter Stika, an archaeobotanist from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany has been studying the remains of an early Iron Age Celtic settlement at Eberdingen-Hochdorf dating from around 500 BC, in particular the six oblong ditches dug for the process of making barley malt for beer. The excavated ditches contained thousands of grains of charred barley, which Dr Stika believes are the remains of the production of high quality barley malt needed for making beer.