Chinese Made ‘Sweet and Sour’ Beer 5,000 Years Ago
Ancient Chinese brewed beer 5,000 years ago using a similar technology that we use today. It was made of broomcorn millet, barley, Job’s tears, and tubers fermented together and would have tasted “a bit sour and a bit sweet,” said Jiajing Wang, archaeologist and Ph.D. student at Stanford University, according to NPR. Xi’an brewery Wang participated in the excavations at the ...