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Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer

Posted by kdawson on from the mmm-ancho dept.

The Edible Geography blog has an amusing piece about Patrick McGovern, the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages," and his role in the production of a 3,400-year-old Mesoamerican beer recreated from a chemical analysis of pottery fragments. "McGovern describes his collaboration with Dogfish Head craft brewers ... to create a beer based on the core ingredients of early New World alcohol: chocolate beans (in nib form, as the cacao pods are too perishable to transport from Honduras to Delaware), honey, corn, ancho chillis, and annatto. ... The result? Cloudy and quite strong (9% A.B.V.), but more refreshing than you would think: the chocolate is savoury rather than sweet, and the chilli is just a very subtle, almost herbal, aftertaste. There is almost no head."

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  1. Head down in shame by oldhack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is the sorta thing that shames me when facing the Russians. Stop it.

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    1. Re:Head down in shame by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      In Soviet Russia, ancient mesoamerican beer shames YOU!!!

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  2. There is almost no head.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait until she's had a few...

  3. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One time I had a girlfriend and I put my pee-pee in her butt and poo-stinky smells wafted up to my face when my pee-pee was in her poo-poo butt.

    Another time I had a girlfriend and she sat on top when we were doing it and she farted and said Unnnnnnh! at the same time that she farted because she wanted to cover up the fart noise but I knew it and my peen got small because she farted and farting is nasty.

    Many girlfrends I have dont know how to wipe their butts properly and it smells because they think that their butt is dirty and they have to be dainty about it but its their butt and they should know how to wipe better so their butts dont stink like rancid cinamon when the panties drop especially if their lying on their tummy with their butt in the air I do NOT want to smell bad cinamon when trying to get dick big.

  4. Re:Almost no head by nickdwaters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You need to powerup and upgrade to a new wife, my friend. The other didn't get a big enough ring.