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Holy Island, Northumberland
4 March 2001
Quiz

The Team found a brewery, Phil helped build up a beer barrel. Try our quick quiz on the archaeology of beer.

(The quiz uses JavaScript so you need to be using Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3.01 or above, and have JavaScript enabled)

On what are the earliest-known recipes for beer found?

 

The word beer comes from the Old English 'beare'. What does it mean?

 

If an ancient Egyptian man offered his beer to a woman and she drank it, what did it mean?

 

Where and when are hops first known to have been used in the brewing process?

 

Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed strong ale with one of her meals each day. Which meal?

 

What did the Bavarian brewing guilds not know existed when, in 1516, they pushed for the Reinheitsgeobot purity laws making it illegal to use any ingredients but water, barley, and hops in the brewing of beer?

 

out of 6 correct on first try

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