Ancient Brews - Rediscovered and Re-created

Patrick E. McGovern takes us on a fascinating journey through time to the dawn of brewing when our ancestors might well have made a Palaeo-Brew of fruits, honey, cereals and botanicals. Early beverage-makers must have marvelled at the process of fermentation, their amazement growing as they drank the mind-altering drinks which were to become the medicines, religious symbols and social lubricants of later cultures.

McGovern circles the globe-to China, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Scandinavia, Honduras, Peru and Mexico-interweaving archaeology and science to tell stories of making liquid time capsules. Accompanying homebrew interpretations and matching meal recipes help bring the past alive, as our senses and imaginations travel "Back to the Future".

About the author

Patrick E. McGovern is the scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at University of Pennsylvania Museum and an adjunct professor of anthropology. He and Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery, collaborated on the series of Ancient Ales and Spirits.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick E. McGovern, McGovern Patrick E.
• Assisted by: Calagione Sam (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2018
• EAN: 9780393356441
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35644-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Drinks; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History: specific events & topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, COOKING / History, Beers and ciders, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Beer, Beers, Cookery / food and drink / food writing