Chipre. En la edad de bronce elaboraban cerveza

Arqueólogos británicos que trabajan en Chipre excavaron una estructura de dos metros cuadrados con cúpula que a su juicio era un horno para el secado de cereal malta para hacer cerveza hace 3500 años.

Los investigadores, de la Universidad de Manchester recrearon el proceso de elaboración de la cerveza aromatizándola con uvas e higos.

El jefe del equipo, Lindy Crewe, dijo que las personas de la edad de bronce parecía estar bien al tanto de las propiedades relajantes del alcohol, y dijo que se daba a los trabajadores a menudo como un incentivo para ayudar con la cosecha o con la construcción. BBC Mundo

Link 2: Bronze Age 'microbrewery' unearthed
Archaeologists working in western Cyprus are raising a glass to the discovery of a Bronze Age "microbrewery".

The team excavated a 2 metres x 2 metres mud-plaster domed structure which it says was used as a kiln to dry malt and make beer 3,500 years ago.

Beers of different flavours would have been brewed from malted barley and fermented with yeasts with an alcoholic content of around 5%. The yeast would have either been wild or produced from fruit such as grape or fig, according to the researchers.

Dr Lindy Crewe, from the University of Manchester, has led the excavation at the Early-Middle Bronze Age settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia, near Paphos, since 2007. She said: "Archaeologists believe beer drinking was an important part of society from the Neolithic onwards and may have even been the main reason that people began to cultivate grain in the first place...