Homebrewing is a niche hobby today, but before the industrialization of the industry, a lot of beer was made in peoples kitchens. Li Liu, a professor in Chinese archaeology at Stanford, was part of a team that recently discovered a 5,000-year-old beer recipe that she figured could be recreated at home. Homebrewing supplies ideas can be read in this link. The process was approachable enough for students in her Archaeology of Food: Production, Consumption and Ritual course to make in the classroom, so thats what they did.
The recipe,…
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