This Vancouver Island University group brews beer inspired by ancient recipes

Marie Hopwood, a professor of archaeological anthropology at Vancouver Island University in Duncan, B.C., focuses her research on food and alcohol in the Biblical past. It’s a small niche, but Hopwood has found an unusual way to bring the material to life. She creates beers—with names like Midas Touché, Odin’s Eye, and Chosen Chicha—based on ancient recipes. That is, from around 5,000 years ago.

Beer is one of the oldest known beverages in human civilization. The earliest records of it were found on cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, and according to Hopwood, it’s an open debate whether grain was first domesticated to make bread or brew beer. Archeological anthropologists can reconstruct ancient beer recipes by studying written records or by doing residue analysis on drinking vessels from archaeological sites.

To create a modern version of ancient Peruvian chicha, Paul grinds purple Peruvian corn with a brick, extracts its sugars with the help of enzyme-rich pineapple juice and ferments it with agave, strawberries and allspice. It’s significantly less sweet—and more hygienic—than the original variety, but it pays homage to its origins.

The last paragraph of that article talks about planning an event for the fall of 2019. Either the verb tense is wrong, or the date is wrong. Nice read though.

Her name is Hopwood? Perfect!

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