This summer the Dog Fish Head Craft Brewery is going to be releasing a beer that was originally brewed over 9,000 years ago in China. The beer called Chateau Jiahu is a mix of rice, honey and fruit.
The recipe for the brew was put together by Patrick McGovern a molecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick analyzed chemical traces from pottery that was found in a Neolithic village in Northern China.
I’m definitely going to have to put this on the Friday Beer Review list for later this summer when it’s released. I’d like taste what Chinese villagers were catching a buzz off of 3,000 years before the bible thumpers think a big dude in the sky put this place together.
Original Story: Scientific America
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