Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "Brewing Mesopotamian Beer - 4,000 Years Old" video.

  1. 16:10 Not-so-fun fact: In Australia, even in the 1920s and 30s, indigenous Australians were being paid for their labour with tea, flour, sugar, and often rum. And many bigoted Australians (us white and non-white) still blame indigenous Australians for the alcohol abuse issues in their communities. Ironic, no? Oh, and that flour? It was often contaminated with arsenic as a form of attempted genocide. There is also an as yet unproven rumour based on circumstantial evidence that in the 1900s, certain tribes in the Sydney area were given flour that had smallpox sores mixed in with it, leading to a smallpox outbreak that killed hundreds, if not thousands of native peoples. Possibly one of the earlier examples of 'biological warfare'. Happy New Year!
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  2. Thank you. I do feel I need to make this myself. The ingredients seem a lot like prison brew though.
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  3. 20:45 In the early 80s I lived a wandering hippy lifestyle. At one stage I lived in a remote part of North Queensland Australia in a bay with thousands of coconut palms. I was taught how to make 7-day coconut wine. You take a green coconut (or brown), pierce a hole in it, and add a few raisins or sultanas. Reseal the coconut with a stick to seal the hole you made and then leave it on the beach in full sun for seven days. I was told but never tested the warning that after 7 days, methanol begins to form instead of ethanol, so it becomes toxic. Have I tried coconut wine? Once, but not made that way. Maybe in ten years when I'm 70, I'll give it a go...
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