Archaeologists Discovered a 5,000-Year-Old Beer Recipe in China
Step aside with your title to long legacy , craft brewery ! This reconstructed beer formula is over 5,000 years old . It ’s the other beer recipe — and the earliest known use of barley — in China . Archaeologists at Stanford University , while digging along China ’s Wei River , made an challenging discovery : A marvelously complete hardening of brewing equipment . And at the bottom of that equipment was something even more wonderful : residuum from the drink it once brewed ....