progscrape: beer

Ancient Peruvians partied hard, spiked their beer with hallucinogens to win friends

4 years ago arstechnica.com beer

Beer laced with hallucinogenic drugs derived from plant seeds may have helped leaders of a South American culture maintain their political control for hundreds of years, according to new research

4 years ago cnn.com beer

Gold and silver tubes, discovered over a century ago in a bronze age grave in northern Caucassus, were previously thought to be scepters or canopy poles; new study, based on residue analysis and experimental evidence, concludes they were straws for communal beer drinking

4 years ago doi.org beer

Scientists have found a beer-like drink made from the drupes of molle trees and combined with psychotropic seeds — was likely a staple of intimate feasts that helped foster social relationships and reinforced elite positions in the Wari empire between circa 600 AD and 1000 AD

4 years ago businessinsider.com

London Beer Flood of 1814

4 years ago en.wikipedia.org beer

People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago

4 years ago phys.org beer

Iron Age Populations Ate Blue Cheese and Drank Beer, According to Their Ancient Feces

4 years ago technologynetworks.com beer

A faeces sample dated back to the Iron Age in Europe was found to have two kinds of fungi used to make blue cheese & beer

4 years ago scimex.org beer europe

9000 years ago, funerals in China involved a lot of beer

5 years ago arstechnica.com beer china

Archaeologists discover residue of beer drunk 9,000 years ago

5 years ago smithsonianmag.com beer