Great News! BREWERY FOUND!

[HuckleB]

Pre-Incan Brewery Unearthed in Peru's Andes

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040729/sc_nm/life_brewery_dc_1

"U.S. researchers have unearthed what they say may be the oldest known brewery in the Andes, a pre-Incan plant at least 1,000 years old that could produce drinks for hundreds of people at one sitting.

The University of Florida said on Thursday that its archeologists and researchers from the Field Museum in Chicago found the brewery at Cerro Baul, a mountaintop religious center of the Wari empire that ruled what is now Peru hundreds of years before the Incas.

At least 20 ceramic, 10- to 15-gallon (38- to 57-litre) vats were found at the site some 8,000 feet up in the mountains of southern Peru.

"You get the idea that this is massive production, not just your basic household making beer to consume by itself," Susan deFrance, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, said in a statement."

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Sounds like a great excuse to celebrate with a Chicha Joint crawl!

:toast:

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Hmm. I was wondering where I misplaced that.

:)

[HuckleB]

2. Yeah, I'm always leaving things like that somewhere in Peru.

Thank goodness there are people who enjoy finding them!

[truthspeaker]

3. This homebrewer wants the specs on those vats!

10-15 gallons sounds perfect for large batches of homebrew, and maybe the Incans had a fermentation or taste secret with the design or the ceramics used.

[HuckleB]

4. Andean brewer's taste secret: Chew corn, spit. Chew corn, spit.

:)