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'World's oldest brewery' found in cave in Israel, say researchers
Researchers say they have found the world's oldest brewery, with residue of 13,000-year-old beer, in a prehistoric cave near Haifa in Israel. The discovery was made while they were studying a burial site for semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Brewing beer was thought to go back 5,000 years, but the latest discovery may turn beer history on its head. The findings also suggest beer was not necessarily a surplus of making bread as previously thought. The researchers say they cannot tell which came first, and in October's issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, they suggest the beer was brewed for ritual feasts to honour the dead [DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.008] [DX].
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(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday September 17 2018, @10:29AM
Depends on what you call nutritious. Back in the distant past, the problem wasn't staying thin, it was getting enough calories to survive. By that metric beer, especially the murky high carb beer, is actually pretty good.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.