This 1,100-Year-Old Beer's For You: Recreating Ancient Ales

For University of Colorado classics professor Travis Rupp, the best way to bring ancient civilizations back to life is in a pint glass. Rupp works on a special projects team at Avery Brewing Company to brew beers the way that ancient Egyptians, Peruvians and Vikings did. While these beers are certainly different from their modern-day descendants, at the end of the day, a cold one the ancestral way is always a good thing. Cheers.

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[unknowncreature-]

The thing I love about alcohol and history is
1. Almost every cocktail has a story.
2. Humans haven't fundamentally changed all that much over time. Back in 1682 people still enjoyed a good beer, they still talked to each other about their crushes and exes, and they still walked into rooms, forgot why they walked into that room, left the room, and then remembered why they went into the other room in the first place.

[ruven]

When I grow up I want to be a Beerchaeologist...

[Vocaloidsrule]

I'm not a beer drinker, but I still found this video fascinating.

[drmedwuast]

Your videos always seem like a trailer which I wanna see the whole movie of!

[DillPickles]

Whenever I see a new video by y'all i get so excited :D

[CDarkSilver]

The problem with brewing a 1500 year old beer is that you need their yeast, its far from the same otherwise. You need the way the yeast come to being and then have that kind of yeast with the beer you make.

[lilamazon]

i wouldn't be surprised if this guy'd dig up some Aztec or Mesopotamian Beer/Ale recipes in the near future. Cheers!!!

[Kevin]

and there I thought there would be beer preserved for a thousand years... o_o”

[kenadiedoesstuff]

I love how you upload constantly! There's always something to watch!

[tiamat]

When I was a kid about 1992? I was cleaning out an addict with a friend of mine for his parents and we found a 6-pack of 1920 something World's Fair beer. It was amazing to find.

[PbFoot]

i used to live in boulder and i miss avery so much!!! they really did/do some cool beers that i wish more people could experience.

[gabrielaloera]

Cheers everyone! 🍻
Here for you ➡ 🍺 :)

[aquakevo]

would love to know how Egyptian beer was made considering the extremely vague understanding we have of that culture

[CheeseTaterson]

Next time I find myself in Colorado, this is one place I'll certainly be stopping in at.

[videodj]

5000 BC : Egyptians make beer
5000 BC 2am: Egyptian women start to look better😁

[AlexHerrera-wklq]

imagine bringing an ancient egyptian into the future and giving him his favorite beer and the joy he must feel after it tastes the same

[empressa]

I've been to the Avery brewing place before! I saw him there because there's also a restaurant and you can look down at where they are brewing. And it is in boulder Colorado

[davisfontanes]

I love this !!!! I would love to see you Brew it the way the ancients did! No modern Technology.

[EseCuate]

I want to get drunk with some OG beers

[milkyshame]

beer archeologist.... coolest title I've seen in a while