The Oldest Beer Recipe?

“Max Nelson earned his PhD in classical studies through pioneering scholarship and 10 litres of the oldest beer ever produced in Canada.

“The beer recipe reflected what they were doing in Egypt millennia ago,” says Nelson, a University of Windsor professor and beer history guru.

He describes the ancient beer, called bouza in Arabic, as intensely sweet-sour in taste and a beautiful ruby red in colour – once the heavy sediment settles.”

~ The Toronto Star

Along with a wee bit of history of beer and some attempts at tracing back why beer is sometimes shunned in preference for wine, the article contains perhaps the oldest known (and very simple) beer recipe known to man.

It’s interesting – and I may give it a try sometime.

Random Posts

29 Responses to “The Oldest Beer Recipe?”

Leave a Reply