Brewer uses Egyptian recipe to recreate world’s oldest beer

by Ismail Hodge
Brewer uses Egyptian recipe to recreate world’s oldest beer

Constructing the Nice Pyramid of Giza should have been thirsty work, with information suggesting that the labourers who toiled on the monument got a beer ration of ten pints a day.

We now have an concept of what that refreshment might need tasted like, due to a mission that has resurrected each the brewing methods of historic Egypt and a pressure of yeast that had lain dormant for practically 3,000 years.

The ensuing beverage is described as gentle, citrusy and bitter, with a floral aftertaste and an alcohol content material of 5 per cent. “I’d completely drink this after a tough days’ work within the desert,” stated Dylan McDonnell of Salt Lake Metropolis in Utah, the brewer behind the mission.

The three,000-year-old recipe relied on resurrecting a dormant pressure of yeast

He believes it’s

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