Saturday, 24 July 2010

• 9,000 Year Old Beer Recipe!

                                           
  
  Dogfish Head Brewery, located in Delaware has recreated a 9,000 year old beer after analyzing the insides of neolithic pottery found at a burial site in Henan province, in central China. Chateau Jiahu,is brewed from wildflower honey, muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit and chrysanthemums, and will go on sale in the US this August for $13 per bottle bottle.  

  Dr Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, came across the pottery shards on a trip to China 10 years ago. A mixed fermented wine of rice, honey and fruit was drunk in northern China more than a thousand years before the previously oldest-known fermented drinks, brewed in the Middle East. Past scientists used the stylistic similarities of early Chinese pottery and bronze vessels to argue for the existence of a prehistoric fermented beverage like wine or beer. 

  This is something definitely worth trying, even if it is $13.00 for one bottle, but I am curious to see how well this beer will do in today's competitive beer market. 
  Is this something you are going to try?

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