Beer, Bible “Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms, proudly drank beer—and lots of it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 May 2017 Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms,...
Beer “The Reinheitsgebot…had less to do with keeping peasants from poisoning themselves…than with controlling the hops and barley crops” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2017 Beer is less ancient than wine, McGovern went on to say, because it requires...
Beer, Bible “…if ancient Israel did not drink beer, their abstention was unique in the entire ancient Near East” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2017 …the Hebrew Bible records barley (שְׂעֺרָה) as one of the most abundant and important...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Late Antiquity, Wine “The contrast between wine culture of Palestine and beer culture of Babylonia is well documented in the Talmud…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...
Beer, Wine “…beverages in antiquity most often contained many ingredients: products solely composed of barley, grapes, or dates were rare” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 Compounding the difficulty in identifying שֵׁכָר is the fact that beverages in antiquity most...
Beer “Every beer is a brewer’s invention to some degree—a combination of ingredients that could never be found in nature” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2017 Every beer is a brewer’s invention to some degree—a combination of ingredients that could...
Beer, Bible, Middle East “The process for making beer was different in the ancient world from that used today, and it didn’t include the addition of hops or carbonation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 May 2017 Barley, one of the more popular grains for making beer in the ancient world,...
Beer “American craft brewing is American manufacturing that doesn’t outsource these well-paying American jobs” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 May 2017 The growth and the excitement in the beer business is in craft, and its...
Beer, Bible “…the fact that ancient Israel produced, consumed, and cherished wine by no means precludes beer production” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 March 2017 …the fact that ancient Israel produced, consumed, and cherished wine by no means precludes...
Beer, Bible “Ancient Israel’s affinity for beer has largely been ignored” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 February 2017 Beer was a staple in the Israelite diet, just as it was throughout the...