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Beers today taste nothing like they did back then. Microbiology aside (today's beer is made with pure-bred yeast, back then it was a wild mix of microbes), pale
by swerner 9y ago
Beers today taste nothing like they did back then. Microbiology aside (today's beer is made with pure-bred yeast, back then it was a wild mix of microbes), pale malt was not produced until the 17th or 18th centre, and the pale lager beers we nowadays associate with traditional German beer were developed as late as the 19th century.
- 13of40 9y agoIt also would have been warm, flat, made with fire-dried malt (so smoky)[1], and possibly made with bittering agents other than hops, like gruit[2]. [1]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-beer-tasted-like-smoke-brewing?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-beer-tasted-like-s... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit