Dung-Flavored Beer Brewed Anew on Scottish Island
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Updated: Sun, Sep 02 7:44 AM EDT
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.
Historians have recreated the recipe after uncovering what they claim is a
5,000-year-old pub and brewery on the remote archipelago.
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.
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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of India" that in some kitchens there the floor is coated with cow dung
which is allowed to dry to an odorless, cementlike hardness, and which the
Indians insist has antiseptic properties. The inner walls of their
woodburning ovens are similarly treated.
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