Why Beer Is The Oldest Recipe In The World | The Pharaoh's Liquid Gold
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2021
- Beer, known as liquid gold to many in this day and age, but even more so to the ancient Egyptians. This fascinating documentary takes us on an archaeological dig as the Scottish and Newcastle Brewery tries to discover the secrets of the original recipe in the land of the Pharaohs. Following brewery executive and keen Egyptologist, Jim Merrington, and his efforts to recreate this ancient mysterious beer - it's an intriguing journey into a beverage that has stood the test of time.
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Amazing what you can get done - when you offer someone a mug of beer, ... Pyramid construction, Stonehenge, Avebury, Machu Pic'chu, Olyamtambu, Puma Punku, Oak Island rock roadway constructions and mine tunnels, ...
Just add some bread, onions, and maybe a little saltfish and you can create civilizations!
When the water would often kill you and the beer didn't, offering a mug of beer was tantamount to offering life!
@@Bear-cm1vl the first fish and chips was started in Egypt, with the first pyramids, fish and carp from the Nile, with corn/barley/wheat chips, and a beer ...
Yes and the people and country could make money to improve the people’s lives.
actually, beer was a staple of sumer thousands of years before egypt was even a thing.
this channel is becoming worse with each viewing for it's revisionism.
interestingly, only women could brew it by sumarian law, yet only men could drink it..
How old is this? I feel like I’m back in 1988.
1994 I think. I googled the episode and came up with a few dates but this was the closest to the title.
Man I wish we had some good, modern, accurate history channels
@@Zordy21 definitely! Especially since much of history is fluid anyway.
I was thinking the same 😄. I used to have the same big glasses in the eighties
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When did they make that beer infomercial 1992?
Yes, about.
this is the most awesome content on youtube. nothing beats the quality of this video
really? considering beer was a sumerian invention, this 'history' is nonsense.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
Egyptians didn't invent beer. It might be the oldest recorded recipe but it predates them by many centuries.
And mead is even older.
Exactly. I was not invented by Egyptians, but more or less "padronizated" in a recipe by then. Mead is way older, although it was "scarcely" made due to the difficulty in production (scarcely in relation to beverages equivalents to beer, but still relatively popular among nobility , priests and so on )
If you are the one finally writing it down yeah its been a while
K viking
@@eliasbram3710 mead is way easier to make then beer. To make mead you just heat up water and honey to made the honey easy to pour and add yeast. Beer thee's a lot more steps
@@92bagder Yes, indeed, I forgot to mention that in my previous comment.
the problem is that getting enough honey can be very difficult in some parts of the world, that's what I meant when I said It was harder to produce (my mistake, my comment was not clear). Today is way easier, I tried to make mead some time ago, it was very bad in taste, but easy to make lol Really recommend people to try to make some
Excellent!
Now I want to rewatch the old Highlander series, especially the seasons after they introduced Methos)
I thought the Sumerian beer recipe was the oldest. It reads like a ritual.
it is.it was a sumarian staple for men only that only women were allowed to brew.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
this channel ignores actual history and is a joke.
there are ceiuniforme tablets in the british museum giving recipes and methods for beer making.
these predate egyptian culture.
I’d buy it!!
You bugged up a little. Their wort was a true maximum mashing of the wet and sprouted grains. Their beer was not filtered, and the same wort mashings were left in the beer, as a grain bread soup-beer. Never toss out or filter the healthy remnants. This is true thick, dark, nutritious (and chewy) beer - not today's filtered clear **ss beer.
Every old civilation brewed beer. Because water couldn't be trusted.
That's not the only reason. It was also a way of getting calories and - although they didn't know it directly at the time - B vitamins into people
Good barley (and buckwheat) beer - sweet, dark, thick, ... much like original Japanese Sapporo unpasteurized jug beer ... drink until your head hits the table !
And as a result there are now hundreds of different wheat based beers on the market. I guess that was archeological money well spent, eh?
And a surprisingly large amount of them have coriander in them too
Your statement doesn't make sense since wheat beer have been continuously brewed centuries ago in Europe
Google reveals that this beer was brewed in 1996, so I guess this documentary is from 1995/1996.
Thanks, that is quite important to know!
I want this so bad I hate hops and I might actually be able to like this beer
From the date this was filmed until today surely huges advances were made in knowing more about this process, anybody does know the updates?
no need, there are ceuniforme tablets in the british museum from sumer, giving recipes and methods for brewing.
this channel is nonsense.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
Close to Guinness :)
They didn’t use the barley? They said Egyptians had barley. They probably used barley.
egyptians 'inherited' beer making from sumer.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
this channel is absolute nonsense.
5:15 this is why education needs to spread.
this isn't 'education'.
beer was being made in sumer thousands of years before egypt existed.
there are tablets in ceuniforme in the british museum giving recipes and methods for brewing.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
@@michelguevara151 The woman literally says most of them are illiterate.
How do you not have a link showing if ya can order the beer or at least support the society?
considering this was made in the early 90s.... that beer probably once again does not exist. The society may also no longer exist or at least not in the form it was at the time.
The beer is long gone. Brewed and auctioned off ☹️
www.atlasobscura.com/foods/tutankhamun-ale-beer-egypt
You can get the recipe online and brew it yourself though.
@@lisa_of_the_valleys Thanks for the link.
I would like to have a jug with lukewarm cervisia, please. I am afraid beer is older than egypt. It existed already 1000 years earliers in Sumer.
20:49 =I wonder if they'll commercialize it? Wouldn't that be interesting? I mean, that would be the new student's drink...
The greatest civilization reduced to slaves who can't drink alcohol.
Lots of incest too.....
And a fucking pound of honey a day
@@faminethesecond6694 somewhere in Egypt Amun is weeping.
So much truth in this
Not sure that's accurate and I sense some racism in this comment. Muslim people are not slaves. It is their choice to follow their religious law that forbids alcohol. Do your research.
Wow
Hey your 1st lol had to
@@thetroll1247 I don't even drink. Cheers!
I wonder how old is this documentary?
Late 80's/early 90's
1994 from what I can tell on Google.
Is there anything that beer CAN'T do?
Mead in one form or another is nearly 2000 years older than beer
Perhaps. But mead is a rarity compared to beer; honey was far too limited for widespread use whereas cereals were literally omnipresent in civilized societies
Mead is basically honey wine
@@AnotherAnon it is honey wine. Very similar production.
@@the-based-jew6872 yeah it's exactly the same, just made with honey and water instead of grape juice.
@@RR-uj2vx he didn't say it was.
King Brewtenkhmen Beer
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man, these boffins are going gaga over brewing some beer
5:00
Is that true? I mean, we all know sometimes things are filmed to create an interesting narrative. I find it hard not to believe that right around the corner is some kid playing Nintendo Switch on a 75 inch Sony TV,
This looks like it was filmed like 30 years ago so... yes it was probably true
I think we seriously are missing some keys to reality now days... we were so close before.... maybe thats why we failed... we were stopped because we were so close..... creepy...
Claiming the Egyptians were the first to do anything is dubious at best.
They were one of the first civilizations with written records of what they did. A lot of other civilizations did not have written language to prove what they did.
@@FlutePlayer777 Well, apart from the Phoenicians, Sumerians, Minoans, Greek, Indians, Chinese and a bunch more. The ones without a written language mostly existed in the Americas and Africa. Egyptians were extremely good at propaganda though...
@@erikc1775 They were all well after the Egyptians. Egyptian wriing goes back 5000 years., about 2000 years older than that lot you quoted.
@@bruceparr1678 They were not before the Mesopotamian cultures. The first written records we have are Mesopotamian clay tablets. Either way my point is that they were just one of a whole bunch of cultures with written language. There is nothing super special about the Egyptian civilisation. It was a river culture just like the ones found in Mesopotamia, China and the Indus Vally.
@@FlutePlayer777 sumarian ceuniforme predates egypt by at least 1500 years, and that's only what survives.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
I think that th Sumarians also brewed 'good' beer.
indeed they did.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
they also had laws barring women from drinking it and barring men from brewing it.
basically the Egyptians drank barleywine.
This must have been shot in the 70s. Everyone's hair was whack. The beer scientist guy was cool. Yay beer!
Looks like the 90s
1994 there about
The Republic of Georgia has records dating the making of wine back to around 8,500 years ago. Dynastic Egypt -- the time of the pharaohs -- began only about 5,000 years ago. Georgian wine making even predates the earliest records of Chinese wine making. The pharaohs weren't even in the ball park -- not even close.
Thats wine not beer. Two different substances.
@@FlutePlayer777 Well yea, but the title says beer is the oldest recipe, which it isn't. Even for fermented beverages it isn't as the oldest is mead/honey wine.
@@erikc1775 Not all alcohol is made the same. In its category Mead is the oldest of the wines. Beer has been around and has been in multiple cultures. The first WRITTEN recipe was in Egypt. Before that it was all word of mouth and hard to prove. Kind of like the game of telephone. Some details may be lost forever.
@@FlutePlayer777 Do you mean written recipe for beer or written recipe in general? Because the oldest written recipe for beer is from Mesopotamia, the oldest recipe in general is from Egypt and has nothing to do with beer, it tells how to make flatbread if I remember correctly.
@@erikc1775 No. I talking about beer only. That is the topic of this video. BEER.
I know Mesopotamia had written language. Cuneiform? But I never knew they wrote down their beer recipe.
I believe there is a recipe for breaded bird in the leviticus chapter of the bible. It's for a burnt offering... you wouldn't send something to the God that you wouldn't eat yourself.
A better use for the proceeds of the beer sales would be to further research into cures for lip, gum, tongue and esophageal cancers were are caused by alcohol consumption. Don't you think?
Back then it was not a concern. Alcohol consumption alone does not lead to those things. Moderation. Also some of those conditions are caused by chewing tobacco more so than beer.
Time 11:00 the 3 guys take the chairs and let the LADY sit on the rocks - way to go gentlemen.
Women's lib...
@@misterhat5823 Love the hat
It was 1994. Just the beginning of ladies getting respected more.
Im trying this fuckin beer.... ♡
I think I am in love with the nerdy archaeologist girl!
Ikr shes kinda hot good body and pretty toes
Probably bout 50 yrs old now lol.
it's a shame she's wrong.
sumer made beer.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
The problem is that many inhabitans of egypt from today have very little in common with the egyptians of the pharaons.
Today people are invaders and other people that came to egypt after the pharaons period and they dont have many cultural,linguistic or genetic traits in common with the ancient people that built the piramids.
Everyone should remember that a choice between a quick death by drinking the polluted water of these days, and a slow death from drinking the beer is a no brainer. We no longer have to make that choice. Given that was the choice of the time, the taste of the beer then was of little concern.
Yay im the 1000th like.
5:03
Misinformation: These people are not descendants of the ancient Egyptians who ruled egypt when the monuments where build.
These people are arabs, most of them came between AD 639 and 646
Siiiiiiiiiighhh ofc they had to show a child with flies in their eyes in Africa.
@Nate Cross to go with a dumb video ignoring the beer making tradition of ancient sumer.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
this channel is nonsense.
in the british museum in london, there is a ceuniforme tablet giving recipes and methods for brewing.
they also had laws barring women from drinking it and men from brewing it.
TLDW
Thanks for letting us know.
It's wild to see these descendants of a once apex culture.... STILL living like that... and by descendants i mean us from these archaic 90's intellectuals . ;)
Back in my old drinking days, I never cared what the beer tasted like I drink to get DRUNK by the time I was downing the third beer I couldn't taste much of it any way. I just knew it went good with a few to many shots of whiskey... Yes I was a every night DRUNK... But that all changed 19 years ago... But some people like to remind me of the drunken dumb ass I was . I never could figure out how to drink like normal people. God knows I tried...
Great video thanks for sharing it....
Ok no
Ancient brewing methods probably made their beer taste horrible mainly because of the quality of the water used.
Fake narrative.
quite so.
sumer brewed.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumaria was ancient before egypt was young".
actually, beer was a staple in sumaria long before the egyptians were even a civilization.
as the ancient egyptian saying goes "sumer was ancient before egypt was young."
well done for ignoring real history.
*nul points*
The geeky woman quite attractive without those glasses
You can really tell this was filmed 25+ years ago. The level of 80s woke was mostly W men trying to guide a W woman in her research. None of this would be acceptable today.
The Egyptians did not build the pyramids, they inherited them from an earlier civilization.
Show ur facts