Archaeologists uncover a 5,000-year-old beer recipe in China

Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 04:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An ancient Chinese beer recipe brewed 5,000 years ago calls for some unusual ingredients by today's standards: barley, broomcorn millets and Job’s tears, as well as bits of bulbous root vegetables like snake gourd root, yam and lily. The Yangshao people, who inhabited northeastern China, made their...

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