Miserable bastard.
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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As far as I know, bottom fermented lagers have been brewed in Germany already in the early 15th century
ReplyDeleteI thought 15th century means the same as 1400s.
As far as I know maritime history, Columbus made his first voyage 1492. That is not early 15th century, it is almost closing of the century. And he never went to Patagonia
Either the article is complete balderdash, or someone had been to Patagonia long before the Conquistadors.
Anyway, I make most of my beer by myself, and it is all real ale. Why buy inferior products when you can make yourself far better stuff?
Ironmistress: you overlook the possibility that the Patagonian yeast got into Columbus's drinking water, and then he kinda' bumped along the coast until he found his way home. If he was so wasted that time actually ran backward for him, this could account for a certain famous arithmetic error as well. Hm, some more prose and some footnotes, and there may be tenured position in this for me...
ReplyDeleteUmm... perhaps the yast was brought to Germany by swallows?
ReplyDeleteTrouble is we need to send the instructions to brew decent Beer back to the US! How you poor people survive on that insipid dishwater is beyond me! Trying to find a decent pint in the US is well nigh impossible. Lovely people, very friendly but could not brew beer at gunpoint ;)
ReplyDeleteMind you getting a decent cup of tea is similarly hard. Come on chaps, you were once a Colony, no backsliding please! :)
An African or European swallow?
ReplyDeleteThen again, they may simply have been looking on the wrong side of the South Atlantic.
ReplyDeleteSince South America and Africa were once very close neighbors (see "Pangaea" and "continental drift"), it's entirely possible that the yeast in question exists somewhere in Southern Africa, as well.
Where it could have been brought back to Europe, quite accidentally, by Portuguese seafarers working the western African coast in the late 1300s to early 1400s, or even (admittedly a stretch) Phoenician traders even earlier.
cheers
eon
And oh, yes, before I forget-
ReplyDeleteSince beech is native to Germany, too, the yeast might have been there from prehistoric times. It may be missing today because of the forest "assarts" of the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries.
Just a thought.
cheers
eon