Time to set the DVR - Beer Brewing on History Channel - March 17

March 12, 2008

In case you haven’t seen this yet, The History Channel’s show, Modern Marvels has a special on beer brewing (2005). They’ll be playing it on March 17th @ 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Actually, the whole day of St. Patrick’s Day on The History Channel looks pretty good, I ended up setting it to record half the day!

History Channel - Modern Marvels -Episode: Brewing - Monday, March 17, 2008 - 1 p.m. & 7 p.m.
It’s one of the world’s oldest and most beloved beverages–revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America’s Founding Fathers. Today, brewing the bitter elixir is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. Join us for an invigorating look at brewing’s history from prehistoric times to today’s cutting-edge craft breweries, focusing on its gradually evolving technologies and breakthroughs. We’ll find the earliest known traces of brewing, which sprang up independently in such far-flung places as ancient Sumeria, China, and Finland; examine the surprising importance that beer held in the daily and ceremonial life of ancient Egypt; and at Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, an adventurous anthropologist and a cutting-edge brewer show us the beer they’ve concocted based on 2,700-year-old DNA found in drinking vessels from the funerary of the legendary King Midas.

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