Hey yall.
In my archaeology class we have the option to do a creative project for 10% of our grade and after I let my teacher know I was a homebrewer, she enthusiastically told me she would love a creative homebrewing project.
So the idea is that I could either: brew a modern interpretation of an ancient beer recipe like how dogfish head does it; brew a modern beer simply with ancient ingredients added, as a lot of the ancient beer recipes use special bread as mash instead of crushed grain for the mash and/or are completely different than what we drink and brew nowadays (having bread chunks in the beer, no hops, use of different roots, herbs, flavoring things).
I did some research of the places where beer residue was found in pots and stuff like that, like egypt (where they threw special loaves of bread into standing water, which fermented with yeast in the air), places in neolithic europe where barley was used in the mash, and especially places in Czech where hops were first used in ales.
The brew day will be this weekend and I'll be joined by a classmate who's also a homebrewer. We have yet to set a recipe/style of brew.
We seem to both want hops added, which means we can model it after ancient czech ales.
Do you have any information about the ingredients that were added to ancient beers/ales?
Any information about cultures I haven't mentioned who brewed beer?
Any input?
Thanks
In my archaeology class we have the option to do a creative project for 10% of our grade and after I let my teacher know I was a homebrewer, she enthusiastically told me she would love a creative homebrewing project.
So the idea is that I could either: brew a modern interpretation of an ancient beer recipe like how dogfish head does it; brew a modern beer simply with ancient ingredients added, as a lot of the ancient beer recipes use special bread as mash instead of crushed grain for the mash and/or are completely different than what we drink and brew nowadays (having bread chunks in the beer, no hops, use of different roots, herbs, flavoring things).
I did some research of the places where beer residue was found in pots and stuff like that, like egypt (where they threw special loaves of bread into standing water, which fermented with yeast in the air), places in neolithic europe where barley was used in the mash, and especially places in Czech where hops were first used in ales.
The brew day will be this weekend and I'll be joined by a classmate who's also a homebrewer. We have yet to set a recipe/style of brew.
We seem to both want hops added, which means we can model it after ancient czech ales.
Do you have any information about the ingredients that were added to ancient beers/ales?
Any information about cultures I haven't mentioned who brewed beer?
Any input?
Thanks
