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Archaeologists have unearthed an approximately 5,000-year-old brewery in China:
It's the oldest beer-making facility ever discovered in China – and the evidence indicates that these early brewers were already using specialized tools and advanced beer-making techniques. For instance, the scientists found a pottery stove, which the ancient brewers would have heated to break down carbohydrates to sugar. And the brewery's underground location was important for both storing beer and controlling temperature – too much heat can destroy the enzymes responsible for that carb-to-sugar conversion, explains Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the current research.
[...] The research group inspected the pots and jugs, and found ancient grains that had lingered inside. The grains showed evidence that they had been damaged by malting and mashing, two key steps in beer making. Residue from inside the uncovered pots and funnels was tested with ion chromatography to find out what the ancient beer was made of. The 5,000-year-old beer "recipe" was published [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601465113] on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @03:58AM
Did not use Linux. Is not relevant to my interests. Linux forever!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @05:01AM
Oh so you don't want the Linux monomaniac troll. How about the millennial troll.
I don't care about beer, because I'm a millennial, and millennials only drink wine, don't you know.
(Score: 2) by julian on Wednesday May 25 2016, @05:26AM
You've got it wrong. I'm a millennial (26yo) and my alcohol consumption is almost exclusively beer. I sometimes drink wine and never drink hard alcohol.
But fair trade organic yerba mate is my main drink--excluding filtered water which I pound hourly from my reusable metal Contigo/Sigg bottle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @05:41AM
Holy crap man. You're a millennial who doesn't feel overwhelmingly compelled to drink wine with your pizza like the stereotype says. Are you absolutely sure you exist?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 25 2016, @07:16PM
But in exchange, he has embraced the IPA! Hopped up everything!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @06:08AM
We drink indi craft beer you muppet.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 25 2016, @07:18PM
Brewed exclusively with yeast isolated from a hipster's beard. [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday May 25 2016, @06:14AM
Beer: bleh!
Wine: meh
Sake: Oh Yeah!
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday May 25 2016, @06:38AM
Now I'm feeling soooo young. I appreciate Linux, and I prefer red wine compared to beer. Considering I'm from the seventies, you really made my day. Thanks!
Of course, when I started to like GNU/Linux, we didn't have this systemd-crap. Those days it was a real GNU/Linux. If you wanted to use a fancy "mouse" and "GUI" you had to invest your time to go through the config files. Setting up a sendmail server was like a final exam to linuxiness, emacs stood for "eight megabyte and constantly swapping", and eight megabyte were considered HUGE. Linux userland tools adhered to the concept of having small tools for small tasks, and a combination of small tools for big tasks. "Java" was a hot cuppa coffee with lots of milk and sugar. The sun was a computer in our basement, and trolling was a art, not a pass-time. Now ge'roff my lawn, youngster!
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 25 2016, @04:15PM
Ah, messing with the xorg config file in RedHat: good times, good times. :)
Now all i have time for is messing with i3wm config files, and barely that. :(
Linux is too easy now, lol. All the 'fun' is gone! :)
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday May 25 2016, @08:59PM
It's not "Linux", unless you are talking about the Kernel only. It's Gnome/Linux! (Some time ago it used to be GNU/Linux, and soon it will be "systemd, powered by Linux")
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @03:43PM
Would it cause you to have an aneurysm to know that I also am eating organic kale with my wine?
(Score: 5, Informative) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday May 25 2016, @06:08AM
In other news: Chinese brewery joins Disney in fight to extend IP validity duration to at least 5100 years. Recent discovery proves that knowledge gets lost when IP rights are lost for the licensing business, extended patent validity periods are essential for human development.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 25 2016, @09:16AM
User #51zXXXXX (no)Info):
I don't need to scratch my head and search my soul to figure out whether God created the universe. I was there. I saw the whole thing.
God didn't create the universe. Well, He did, but not intentionally. God just wanted a beer. But you can't just create a beer floating in the middle of the void -- there's nothing satisfying about it. It would be like a book written by an illiterate person -- sure, he could put lots of black squiggles onto a bundle of pages that would vaguely look like a book, but it wouldn't mean anything.
So for a proper beer, God pretty much had to make up physics. I'm not just talking about the refinements needed to get it to foam just right -- I'm talking about the whole deal. After you drink some, there should be less left over, not more. Drinking a beer should not make you turn into beer yourself. Beers should not be smarter than the drinker. Well, not the first few, at least. The state of drinking beer needs to contrast with something, so the state of not drinking beer must also exist. In fact, that's where most of the world came from, because having the world exist in only two states (currently drinking beer/currently not drinking beer) just seemed too lame to a clever guy like God. Same idea for water and other liquids -- if He can drink beer, He really ought to be able to drink not-beer, just so He can say He chose the beer instead.
And then there's the whole question of origins. A beer is so much less interesting if it creates itself or just spontaneously comes into existence. A truly full-bodied beer needs a background, a character, a story. God went a little crazy with that, inventing those 'human' things with enough cleverness to invent stuff, curiousity to try things out, and a desperate need to get sloshed, smashed, trashed, and basically totally drucking funk. And all that cleverness and curiousity necessitated science. And dinosaur fossils. And religion. (God got a real kick when he realized he'd have to invent religion, I remember. Of course, he wasn't exactly sober by that time...)
Oh, and you know that bit about "...and on the 7th day He rested?" Purely an excuse to keep us from bothering Him during His hangover. We're still on the 7th day, see. I'm not even sure if He thought far enough ahead to make an 8th day. He was having some trouble with the notion of Time, and I recall Him saying something like "aw, screw it. Nobody's going to be drinking any beer at the speed of light anyway. I'll see you later -- I'm gonna go get wasted."
Not mine. Not sure whose. But it beats a Flying Spagetti Monster and Merlot!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 26 2016, @04:30AM
Harbin and Tsingtao were founded around 1900. And the Chinese from get go ones after 1980s. Funny and sad how knowledge disappears.