This Israeli beer is brewed with 3,000-year-old Philistine yeast strain
The beer tasted very much like a modern wheat beer: mild, slightly spicy, sweet and fruity, drinkable, and refreshing. And it uses ancient Philistine yeast.
The original team of microbiologists, archaeologists and beer brewers who revitalized, nurtured and brewed beer from the 3,000-year-old yeast strain found in pottery pores at Tel es-Safi (the Philistine city of Gath)(photo credit: YANIV BERMAN/IAA)ByDOUG GREENER
