The truest alcohol enthusiasts will try almost anything to conjure the libations of old. They\u2019ll slaughter goats to fashion fresh wineskins, so the vintage takes on an authentically gamey taste. They\u2019ll brew beer in dung-tempered pottery or boil it by dropping in hot rocks. The Anchor Steam Brewery, in San Francisco, once cribbed ingredients from a 4,000-year-old hymn to Ninkasi, the Sumerian beer goddess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And here I am drinking a bottle of Heineken\u2014it seems so bland without the\u00a0 mugwort. Do those Amsterdam brewers have a beer goddess?<\/p>\n
“I keep telling people that beer is more important than armies when it comes to understanding people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Researchers create old brews. Really old brews. The truest alcohol enthusiasts will try almost anything to conjure the libations of old. They\u2019ll slaughter goats to fashion fresh wineskins, so the vintage takes on an authentically gamey taste. They\u2019ll brew beer in dung-tempered pottery or boil it by dropping in hot rocks. 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