{"id":32695,"date":"2019-05-31T03:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32695"},"modified":"2019-05-30T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:05:56","slug":"the-making-of-ancient-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/31\/the-making-of-ancient-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of ancient beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nanopores taken from ancient pottery have allowed researchers to make beer following a 5,000-year-old recipe. <em>(photo by Yaniv Berman IAA via Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Research led by scholars at Hebrew University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University has revealed a way to isolate yeast from ancient pottery, from which beer was then produced. HU\u2019s Dr. Ronen Hazan and IAA\u2019s Dr. Yitzhak Paz, who are among the leaders of the research, noted that \u201cwe now know what Philistine and Egyptian beers tasted like.\u201d The team examined the colonies of yeast that formed and settled in the pottery\u2019s nanopores. Ultimately, they were able to use resurrected yeast to create a beer that\u2019s approximately 5,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, the beer isn\u2019t bad,\u201d said Hazan. \u201cAside from the gimmick of drinking beer from the time of King Pharaoh, this research is extremely important to the field of experimental archeology \u2013 a field that seeks to reconstruct the past. Our research offers new tools to examine ancient methods and enables us to taste the flavours of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Paz, \u201cThis is the first time we succeeded in producing ancient alcohol from ancient yeast. In other words, from the original substances from which alcohol was produced. This has never been done before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanopores taken from ancient pottery have allowed researchers to make beer following a 5,000-year-old recipe. (photo by Yaniv Berman IAA via Ashernet) Research led by scholars at Hebrew University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University has revealed a way to isolate yeast from ancient pottery, from which beer was then produced. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[224,9040,4330,2225],"class_list":["post-32695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-archeology","tag-beer","tag-israel","tag-science"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}