9,000-year-old beer to be relaunched
A brewery is relaunching the world's oldest beer by using on a 9,000-year-old Chinese recipe.Chateau Jiahu is a blend of rice, honey and fruit which is said to have been all the rage in ancient China.
But after being forgotten about for around 9,000 years the beer is set to make it's return after beer experts Dogfish recreated the brew.
Brewers analyzed preserved jars of the beer found by archaeologists in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, to perfect they drink.
Lets just hope the archaeologists didn't misread the jars and the brewers have accidentally recreated a 9,000-year-old cough medicine.
Dogfish Brewery first recreated the "very smooth" and "not too sweet" beer in 2006 and are currently producing a limited number of bottles for sale this summer.
A spokesperson for Dogfish said: "Dogfish brewers used pre-gelatinized rice flakes, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers.
"The rice and barley malt were added together to make the mash for starch conversion and degredation. The resulting sweet wort was then run into the kettle. The honey, grapes, Hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers were then added.
"The entire mixture was boiled for 45 minutes, then cooled. The resulting sweet liquid was pitched with a fresh culture of Sake yeast and allowed to ferment a month."
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A spokesperson for Dogfish said: "Dogfish brewers used pre-gelatinized rice flakes, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers. "The rice and barley malt were added together to make the mash for starch conversion and degredation. The resulting sweet wort was then run into the kettle. The honey, grapes, Hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers were then added.
"The entire mixture was boiled for 45 minutes, then cooled. The resulting sweet liquid was pitched with a fresh culture of Sake yeast and allowed to ferment a month."
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