Read the story and listen to the interview on WUWM’s Lake Effect: Milwaukee Team Recreates An Ancient Brew Unearthed in Archaeological Dig
Story featured on National Public Radio‘s Facebook and Twitter social media platforms.
Some of the media that picked up the story …
- National Public Radio‘s food blog The Salt: What’s on your Plate, 2,500 Years Ago, This Brew Was Buried With The Dead; A Brewery Has Revived It
- ScienceAlert, Scientists have recreated an ancient mead from 2,500 years ago
- Archaeology Magazine, Anceient Beverage Brewed in Milwaukee
- The Drinks Business, U.S. Brewery Resurrects Iron Age ‘Braggot’
- Realm of History, Experts recreate a 2,500-year old Iron Age drink from ancient Germanic tomb
- RealClear, What Did Beer Taste Like 2,500 Years Ago? One Brewery Resurrected A Buried Recipe To Find Out
- Ancient Origins, An Iron Brew: 2,500-Year-Old Drink Recreated by Archaeologists and Brewers
- Good Food, Brewers Recreate A 2500-Year-Old-Beer Found In A Tomb
- LiveScience, Iron Age Brew Recreated from Ancient Cauldron’s Remnants
- NewHistorian, Alcoholic Brew Found in Iron Age Burial Plot Recreated
- Fox News Science, Iron age brew recreated from ancient cauldron’s remnants
- aspekt Magazin – Verlorenes Wissen: Das keltische Urzeitbier
Bettina Arnold, Anthropology faculty member, Josh Driscoll, Anthropology PhD candidate, and Chad Sheridan, Lakefront Brewery’s Lead Cellarman, were featured in a Lake Effect interview with Bonnie North that aired this past Thursday on WUWM. They discussed the ale-honey braggot reconstructed at Lakefront in August based on paleobotanical evidence from Arnold’s excavations in Germany in 2000, which produced evidence for this alcoholic beverage in a bronze cauldron found in one of the burials recovered at an Iron Age site near the Danube River.
Mike Vergolina, Russ Klisch, Bettina Arnold and Chad Sheridan toast photographer Chris Ranson in samples of Keltenbräu #2.
The archaeological context of this braggot and a Nordic grog based on a Scandinavian Iron Age burial brewed by Josh Driscoll will be presented at a Wisconsin Science Festival event in HON 196 from 3:30-4:30pm, Saturday October 22.