Researchers discovered ancient "beer-making tool kits" in underground rooms built between 3400 and 2900 B.C. Analyses of funnels, pots and jugs show the brewers were using pretty advanced techniques.

Researchers believe that a focus on brewing, sharing, and hosting beer-centric festivities was integral to the Wari's social stability for 500 years.

Max Miller experimented with making an ancient beer based on a hymn from around 1,800 BCE. Max Miller/Tasting History 2024-07-16T14:11:31Z ...

The other group — composed of senior Sam Gallagher, junior Astou Naouyate, and first-year Metztli Lopez — chose a different method. They made a bappir, a barley bread used in ancient Mesopotamian beer ...

Because of this, ancient beer was likely relatively flat and not particularly high in alcohol, unlike our bubbly, boozy IPAs. And without refrigeration technologies, beer was definitely not ice ...

Make Beer WITHOUT Hops Using This Ancient Method. Posted: May 19, 2025 | Last updated: May 19, 2025. Learn how to brew your own Gruit beer—an ancient, hop-free beer made with herbs like yarrow ...

The revival of ancient brews is a drinkable window into history (Credit: nycshooter/Getty Images) Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and ...

An amateur brewer in Utah gathered rare figs and a strain of yeast from 850 B.C. to make a sour, fruity concoction inspired by ancient Egyptian recipes.