Ancient recipes are revived as a Tosa home brewer and a UWM professor team up to recreate early beer recipes

Beer has stood the test of time as one of the world`s favorite social lubricants

However, much of the history of the drink, and the corresponding histories of the cultures it has been associated with, are often ignored. 

To resolve that gap, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor and a Wauwatosa home brewer have spent the last three years combining forces to restore old recipes and spark interest in the underlying history of Milwaukee’s favorite drink.

“The end game is to use beer as a kind of bribe to get people that might think history is really boring to use this as a weird subversive way of exploring things they may not find interesting otherwise,” said UWM Archaeology professor and co-brewer Bettina Arnold....

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Ken Notes: A history class with beer, sign me up. Homework takes on a whole new meaning...