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Some time ago<\/a>\u00a0we wrote about the oncoming arrival at the Brewery of some\u00a0huge terracotta amphoras<\/strong>\u00a0(the one you can see here is just slightly different and it\u2019s actally an old wine amhpora coming from Capua ancient site, but it\u2019s well giving the idea of what we are talking about, and alos of how much beverages were important during past times feasts). Now the time has come to tell you something more about our project \u2013 actually someone already\u00a0did it\u00a0\u2013 in which we have been joined by\u00a0\u00a0Sam Calagione<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Teo Musso<\/a>\u00a0and a very special guest, prof.\u00a0Patrick McGovern<\/a>,<\/strong>Scientific Director of Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania and an expert in fermented beverages in the past.\u00a0 He already worked with\u00a0DogfishHead\u00a0<\/strong>in realizing their incredible\u00a0Ancient Ales.<\/p>\n

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Some time ago\u00a0Sam, Leo and dr. Pat<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 as we friendly named him \u00a0 \u2013 were talking together about a new step of the project, and about their intention in exploring fermented beverages belongin to the mediterranean ancient civilizations.\u00a0Italy<\/strong>\u00a0was a natural option, and, fancy that!, Leonardo was just wondering about a,\u00a0\u201camphora fermented\u201d beer!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The three brewmasters and dr Pat get their hands dirty for the brew!<\/p>\n

So, on the\u00a06th March 2012 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>after an unforgettable night at\u00a0Open Baladin Roma<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the\u00a0three brew masters and dr. Pat<\/strong>\u00a0met at the\u00a0Old Brewery\u00a0in Borgorose for the test batch of our brand new\u00a0\u201cearly beer\u201d\u00a0<\/em>insipred to the ancient fermented beverages of the\u00a0Etruscan Age<\/a>. We choose unusual ingredients for that \u2013\u00a0grano Saragolla\u00a0<\/strong>(an ancient crop variety dating back to 400 d.C. in Central Italy), hazelnuts, pomegranates, honey, tree rasin, dried grapes<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 according to the remains that could be found in some of the\u00a0major archeological sites in Italy<\/strong>. We went there, tracing back the old Etruscans in search for\u00a0the lost recipe<\/strong>, as we will soon show to you in our new video.<\/p>\n

Sam, Leo an dr. Pat beeing filmed before the beautiful Montefortini tumulus in Tuscany<\/div>\n

We visited the\u00a0Museo Archeologico di Cecina\u00a0, not far from Pisa, where we could see\u00a0 some burial vases containing hazelnuts, pomegranates, apple and grapes, coming from the near\u00a0necropolis of Casa Nocera<\/strong>, used to give aromas to some kind of fermented beverages. Also in the ancient necripolis od\u00a0Prato Rosello<\/strong>\u00a0at Artimino, not far from the beautiful village of\u00a0Carmignano<\/strong>\u00a0with its\u00a0Archeological Museum<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 they coudl find incence burners and honeycomb.<\/p>\n

The last \u2013 but not least \u2013 ingredient was the\u00a0yeast<\/strong>:\u00a0 prof.\u00a0Duccio Cavalieri<\/strong>, Researcher and Professor of Microbiology and responsible for the Computational Biology
\nResearch and Innovation Centre \u2013 Fondazione Edmund Mach in S. Michele all\u2019Adige , gave us a very special one: an\u00a01.500 years old yeast<\/strong>\u00a0coming from some ancient grapes that have been found in Tuscany, and that is still alive and kicking!<\/p>\n

So, that\u2019s it: we tried to recreate \u2013 with the precious help form dr Pat \u2013 our own interpretaion of what a\u00a0fermented beverage of the etruscan age\u00a0<\/strong>could have tasted like: at the moment, the result of the first batch is fermenting in the terracotta amphoras in Borgorose. Sam is going to make\u00a0it\u2019s own version ad Dogfish<\/strong>. We can\u2019t wait to toast with our \u201chistoric\u201d beer<\/p>\n

A special thanks to those who helped us in our research:\u00a0prof. Lorenzo Costantini<\/strong>\u00a0from Museo d\u2019Arte Orientale di Roma,\u00a0dott. Andrea Zifferero<\/strong>\u00a0expert in Etruscology and ancient civilizations,d.ssa Maria Chiara Bettini<\/strong>\u00a0from the Museo Archeologico di Carmignano,\u00a0d.ssa Annamaria Esposito<\/strong>\u00a0who was in charge of the site of Casale Marittimo and Casa Nocera,\u00a0dott. Fabrizio Burchianti<\/strong>, major of Casale Marittimo e scientific director at the Museo di Cecina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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