Newslink: An 8,000-Year-Old Homebrew Recipe Should Be Familiar to Modern Beer Snobs

Eight thousand years ago, there was no roadside liquor outlet stocked with cheap beer. But humans living in China came up with a pretty good workaround to get their fix of low-proof booze. It may have required globular pots and some moldy wheat, but a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday shows that they got the job done, leaving behind some of the earliest evidence of an ancient Chinese homebrewing technique.

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