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Historians recreate 'Stone Age' recipe, dung and all
Sept 3, 2001 - Historians have recreated a "Stone Age" beer flavored with animal dung, and put it on sale only in the Orkney islands off northern Scotland.
Merryn Dineley, a Manchester University historian and chief brewer of the ancient beer, told the The Observer on Sunday that the brew was "quite delicious." The ale is brewed in clay pots with traces of baked animal droppings. He and others recreated the recipe after uncovering what they claim is a 5,000-year-old pub and brewery on the remote archipelago. Dineley examined stone-lined drains running under houses in the neolithic village of Skara Brae in the Orkneys and found evidence of a kiln for malting grain and traces of a cereal-based fermented alcohol.
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