[Sca-cooks] And they think _our_ beer tastes bad

[Philip & Susan Troy]

And they think _our_ beer tastes bad... from Reuters, via Netscape

> Dung-Flavored Beer Brewed Anew on Scottish Island
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> LONDON (Reuters) - Even the keenest beer drinker may hesitate before sampling the latest beverage on sale in the Orkney islands off northern Scotland -- a "Stone Age" beer flavored with animal dung.
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> Historians have recreated the recipe after uncovering what they claim is a 5,000-year-old pub and brewery on the remote archipelago.
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> Merryn Dineley, a Manchester University historian and chief brewer of the ancient liquor, told the weekly paper The Observer Sunday that the brew was "quite delicious." The ale is brewed in clay pots with traces of baked animal droppings.
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> Dineley examined stone-lined drains running under houses in the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in the Orkneys and found evidence of a kiln for malting grain and traces of a cereal-based fermented alcohol.
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It does kind of make me wonder about what archaeological deduction
process was applied.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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