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Learn about old and new fermented beverages made with honey.
Discover a 9,000-year-old fermented honey recipe with Dr. Patrick McGovern |
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Student Discount Ticket
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Dr. Patrick Mc Govern |
SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
2:15 - 3:30 PM
Registration Opens- 1:30 PM |
MARITZ FENTON
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$ 15.00 at the door
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| Student discount available for Dr. Patrick Mc Govern only.
A current student ID must be presented at the door the day of the event. Student price $15.00
Please arrive at 1:45 - 2:15pm - Lecture begins at 2:15pm
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| A Honey History Experience: Ancient Ales |
2:15 p.m. Sept. 26
Uncorking the Past
Dr. Patrick McGovern of Penn Museum
(more about Dr. McGovern)
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages |
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed fermented beverages across cultures. Along the way, he explores a provocative hypothesis about the integral role such libations have played in human evolution. We discover, for example, that the cereal staples of the modern world were probably domesticated for their potential in making quantities of alcoholic beverages. These include the delectable rice wines of China and Japan, the corn beers of the Americas, and the millet and sorghum drinks of Africa. Humans also learned how to make mead from honey and wine from exotic fruits of all kinds-even from the sweet pulp of the cacao (chocolate) fruit in the New World. The perfect drink, it turns out-whether it be mind-altering, medicinal, a religious symbol, a social lubricant, or artistic inspiration-has not only been a profound force in history, but may be fundamental to the human condition itself.
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Presentation by Dr. Patrick McGovern.
• Preserved pottery jars found in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province,Northern China, has revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced that long ago – right around the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning tobe made in the Middle East!
Fast forward to 2005…. Molecular Archeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology calls on Dogfish Head to re-create their second ancient beverage and Chateau Jiahu is born.
• Dr. Patrick E. McGovern is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. His academic background combined the physical sciences, archaeology, and history–an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University, graduate work in neurochemistry at the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology and Literature from the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
Over the past two decades, he has pioneered the emerging field of Molecular Archaeology. In addition to being engaged in a wide range of other archaeological chemical studies, including radiocarbon dating, cesium magnetometer surveying, colorant analysis of ancient glasses and pottery technology, his endeavors of late have focused on the organic analysis of vessel contents and dyes, particularly Royal Purple, wine, and beer. The chemical confirmation of the earliest instances of these organics–Royal Purple dating to ca. 1300-1200 B.C. and wine and beer dating to ca. 3500-3100B.C.–received wide media coverage. A 1996 article published in Nature, the international scientific journal, pushed the earliest date for wine back another 2000 years–to the Neolithic period (ca. 5400-5000B.C.).
His research–showing what Molecular Archaeology is capable of achieving—has involved reconstructing the “King Midas funerary feast” (Nature 402, Dec. 23, 1999: 863-64) and chemically confirming the earliest fermented beverage from anywhere in the world—Neolithic China, some 9000 years ago, where pottery jars were shown to contain a mixed drink of rice, honey, and grape/hawthorn tree fruit (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101.51: 17593-98). Most recently, he and colleagues identified the earliest beverage made from cacao (chocolate) from a site in Honduras, dated to ca. 1150 B.C., and an herbal wine from Dynasty 0 in Egypt. More
• Crane wing bone flutes from Jiahu
While Dr. Patrick McGovern will be focusing on the discovery of ancient ales. This is the same archeological site that produced ancient neolithic bone flutes.
Read more:
Bone flute found in China at 9,000-year-old Neolithic site
MetMuseum
Jiahu (ca. 7000–5700 b.c.)
September 26, 2015 - Honey Festival Schedule of events:
BeeSpeakSTL Presentations from Noon - 4:00 p.m. at Maritz in Fenton, MO
Noon- 1:15 p.m.
Ancient Buzz, Modern Obsession by Ken Schramm
Known as the godfather of mead in the US, and Author of The Compleat Meadmaker.
1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
Honey Tasting and Refreshments with the Saint Louis Beekeepers
STUDENT DISCOUNT EVENT - 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Uncorking the Past with Dr. Patrick McGovern - The "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines and Extreme Beverages"
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Student Discount Ticket
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Dr. Patrick Mc Govern |
SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
2:15 - 3:30 PM
Registration Opens- 1:30 PM |
MARITZ FENTON
MAP / INFO |
$ 15.00 at the door
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| Student discount available for Dr. Patrick Mc Govern only.
A current student ID must be presented at the door the day of the event. Student price $15.00
Please arrive at 1:45 - 2:15pm - Lecture begins at 2:15pm
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Honey Festival and VIP Reception at The Barn at Sappington House Museum Complex, MO
Food, Music, Tasting, Sampling and more.
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Dr. Pat is the Author of Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages and Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture
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