Five Notes About 16th Century Beer and Barrels
canopic jug writes:
The Conversation has an article about five things their team learned when researching 16th century beer making. A lot has changed since then, such as standardized grain varieties, standardized yeasts, standardized hops varieties, standardized temperatures, and so on.
As part of a major study of food and drink in early modern Ireland, funded by the European Research Council, we recreated and analysed a beer last brewed at Dublin Castle in 1574. Combining craft, microbiology, brewing science, archaeology, as well as history, this was the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study of historical beer ever undertaken. Here are five things that we discovered.
[...] To learn more about brewing a beer from 1574, visit our online exhibition. A documentary film is coming soon. Details will be on our website.
tldr; Historical documentation shows that your average workers consumed immense quantities of beer per day back then.
Previously:
(2024) "AI Could Make Better Beer. Here's How."
(2024) "Ransomware Halts Production At Belgian Beer Brewery Duvel"
(2023) "Long-Unknown Origins of Lager Beer Uncovered"
(2022) "Beer Hops Compounds Could Help Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease"
(2022) "Genetically Modified Yeast Yields Intense Hop Aromas in Beer"
(2022) "400-Year-Old Ecuadoran Beer Resurrected From Yeast"
... and many more.
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