For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to recreate beers of ...

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Beer has been brewed for thousands of years — long before refrigeration, industrial machinery, or even written recipes. Early civilizations used what they had on hand: grains, honey, fruits, and wild ...

This article from the November issue of WIRED sparked our imagination. Apparently, the ancient Irish people used narrow troughs in the ground, warmed by hot stones, to boil water and grain for brewing ...

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Stein brewing, developed some 500 years ago in Germany, is the practice of using blisteringly hot granite rocks to heat the pre-beer mixture. Today's modern heat sources make it an anachronism, but ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt's tourism and antiquities ...