Why Beer Is The Oldest Recipe In The World | The Pharaoh's Liquid Gold

Beer, known as liquid gold to many in this day and age, but even more so to the ancient Egyptians. This fascinating documentary takes us on an archaeological dig as the Scottish and Newcastle Brewery tries to discover the secrets of the original recipe in the land of the Pharaohs. Following brewery executive and keen Egyptologist, Jim Merrington, and his efforts to recreate this ancient mysterious beer - it's an intriguing journey into a beverage that has stood the test of time.

[johnlord]

Amazing what you can get done - when you offer someone a mug of beer, ... Pyramid construction, Stonehenge, Avebury, Machu Pic'chu, Olyamtambu, Puma Punku, Oak Island rock roadway constructions and mine tunnels, ...

[mudslicker]

How old is this? I feel like I’m back in 1988.

[DetroitMicroSound]

When did they make that beer infomercial 1992?

[elricthebald]

Egyptians didn't invent beer. It might be the oldest recorded recipe but it predates them by many centuries.
And mead is even older.

[TonyT-fzod]

this is the most awesome content on youtube. nothing beats the quality of this video

[elizabethrapoza]

I thought the Sumerian beer recipe was the oldest. It reads like a ritual.

[MsDeepAndDark]

Now I want to rewatch the old Highlander series, especially the seasons after they introduced Methos)

[johnlord]

You bugged up a little. Their wort was a true maximum mashing of the wet and sprouted grains. Their beer was not filtered, and the same wort mashings were left in the beer, as a grain bread soup-beer. Never toss out or filter the healthy remnants. This is true thick, dark, nutritious (and chewy) beer - not today's filtered clear **ss beer.

[Dmitrisnikioff]

How do you not have a link showing if ya can order the beer or at least support the society?

[CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

Every old civilation brewed beer. Because water couldn't be trusted.

[WarHawk-]

And as a result there are now hundreds of different wheat based beers on the market. I guess that was archeological money well spent, eh?

[johnlord]

Good barley (and buckwheat) beer - sweet, dark, thick, ... much like original Japanese Sapporo unpasteurized jug beer ... drink until your head hits the table !

[stumccabe]

Google reveals that this beer was brewed in 1996, so I guess this documentary is from 1995/1996.

[caydenhoward]

5:15 this is why education needs to spread.

[syntheticsamurai]

Mead in one form or another is nearly 2000 years older than beer

[awesomefrugalvegan]

I want this so bad I hate hops and I might actually be able to like this beer

[therealgoodnews]

They didn’t use the barley? They said Egyptians had barley. They probably used barley.

[daniellopez]

From the date this was filmed until today surely huges advances were made in knowing more about this process, anybody does know the updates?

[georgecristiancripcia]

The problem is that many inhabitans of egypt from today have very little in common with the egyptians of the pharaons.
Today people are invaders and other people that came to egypt after the pharaons period and they dont have many cultural, linguistic or genetic traits in common with the ancient people that built the piramids.

[mweskamppp]

I would like to have a jug with lukewarm cervisia, please. I am afraid beer is older than egypt. It existed already 1000 years earliers in Sumer.