Students reproduced a 5000 year old beer

The beer recipe was discovered by Stanford archaeologist Li Liu and a team of researchers on the inside portion of a piece of pottery found in a Chinese cave. The recipe is one for making beer, but not the same kind of beer we enjoy today. Beer at the time in China contained unfiltered grains, and had different flavors — when successful, it was sweeter than the beers we know today.

Students at Stanford University have set out to recreate that beer, doing so following along with the ancient recipe. Some of the resulting beer was described as less than desirable, but others were successful. (Origo)