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Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2018

The History Of Mead And The Lindisfarne Mead

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Recipereminiscing If you’ve read mythology, you’ve undoubtedly run across mead, this drink of heroes, gods, lovers and kings. The god...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

The 18th-century craze for gin

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history extra Gin Lane, a print issued in 1751 by painter and printmaker William Hogarth. It depicts the perceived evils of the consum...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Alcohol as medicine through the ages

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Ancient Origins While no one knows exactly when alcohol was first produced, it was presumably the result of a fortuitous accident that ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Ancient Humans Liked Getting Tipsy, Too

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Smithsonian Ancient Humans Liked Getting Tipsy, Too In a new book on the archaeology and chemistry of alcoholic beverages, Patrick Mc...
Friday, May 19, 2017

No One Questions that Vikings Drank; But Did They Make Wine?

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Ancient Origins Further evidence that the Vikings weren’t just beer-swilling, raping, and pillaging savages comes out of Denmark with t...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Would You Drink a Lumpy Beer? People Living in China 5000 Years Ago Did!

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Ancient Origins Researchers have discovered a 5,000-year-old beer recipe by studying the residue on the inner walls of pottery vessels ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Ancient People of Teotihuacan Drank Milky Alcohol, Pottery Suggests

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By Charles Q. Choi The Pyramid of the Sun in the ancient city of Teotihuacan with ...