How Old is Beer?
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By? <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/daniel-strain" rel="nofollow">
Daniel Strain[/url]
/University of Colorado Boulder</p>
<p>Oktoberfest, the German beer festival, kicked off this week in Munich. To mark the occasion, Travis Rupp, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Classics, tackles the question: “How old is beer?”</p>
<p>Humans are no strangers to kicking back with a cool pint of beer. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, had a hankering for
beer that was a little bit tart, almost like a modern-day gose, a lemony beer from Germany.
Homer, the Ancient Greek poet, spoke of a beverage called
(pronounced “kee-kay-own), which was a mixture of grape wine and fermented grains.</p>
<p>But exactly how old is beer? Old, says Rupp. Really, really old.</p>
<h2><strong>Deeply Historic Role of Beer</strong></h2>
<p>Rupp, a.k.a. the “<a href="
https://www.thebeerarchaeologist.com/" rel="nofollow">Beer Archaeologist[/url],” has arguably one of the tastiest jobs in academia. He travels the world to learn how ancient cultures made beer, then recreates those recipes in a research brewery in his garage. Currently, he’s aging two variations of Homer’s Greek libation, which, Rupp said, are higher in alcohol than traditional beers.? </p>
<p>“When I’m drinking a glass of wine, typically I want to sip on it with my wife,” he said while sipping on a Kiwi Herman New Zealand Lager at? <a href="http://www.visionquestbrewing.com/" rel="nofollow">Vision Quest Brewing[/url]? in Boulder, Colorado. “If I’ve got scotch out, I want alone time…But when it’s beer, I want to drink beer with other people. Beer has been the thing that’s bound us together for a long time.”</p>
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