Brewers Prepare Beer For The End Of Time, Mayan Or Otherwise
The world isn't going to end next Friday, but Dec. 21, 2012, has come to be known as the Mayan apocalypse because that's when the Mayan calendar ends. As scientists have told us repeatedly, the end of the calendar year was actually was a time for celebration and renewal — the equivalent of an ancient New Year's Eve. So breweries around the country have decided to celebrate with — what else? — beer. The alcoholic drinks the Maya concocted in Central America hundreds of years ago aren't quite like the beer we quaff today. There's archaeological evidence that they brewed something like a wine from cacao pods and included ingredients such as honey, chilies and flowers. And descendants of the Maya still make a fermented corn drink called pozol. Pozol can be sweetened with sugar, made bitter with chilies and salt, or colored with annatto.
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| 0.177115 | "a very drinkable beer," he says. "It really comes through why chilies and chocolate are such a good combination." |
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| -0.123651 | "The blood orange puree was interesting," Bisacca says, because "the yeast ate it like crazy." |
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Dec. 21 marks the end of the Mayan calendar — a time of celebration for the ancient people, scientists say, although some modern day folks worry it's a sign of the apocalypse. It may not be the end of the world as we know it, but beer masters inspired by the end of days feel fine.
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