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Theobroma. Based upon a chemical analysis of pottery fragments containing a VERY early alcoholic chocolate beverage!

Wow... sounds spectacular!! I read a great interview with Sam Calagione (founder of Dogfish Head Brewery) and Jim Koch (President of Boston Beer [Sam Adams]) in which they discussed this idea of "archaeologic" brews... Really a great idea!

Here's the link to the brew's page at Dogfish Head:

http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Occasio ... /index.htm



It's supposed to be out in September. If anyone sees it anywhere... BUY me a bottle or two!!

While you're on the Dogfish Head site... if you're a homebrewer and like Dogfish Head's style of rather "extreme" brews... check out the book "Extreme Brewing"

http://store.dogfish.com/item/Extreme_B ... /index.htm

Theo Obroma? Isn't that Barack's Greek cousin?

h2oville rocket wrote:Theo Obroma? Isn't that Barack's Greek cousin?

Great. Here we go with the "Barack is Greek" rumors again...

Best wishes on your quest for the Aztec choco-chili beer, G.

I KNEW Barack was a pagan!

This sounds like a totally awesome experiment! I'm not sure what the final result might be, but coming from Dogfish Head, I'm sure it won't disappoint. Thanks for the heads-up on this, Grant, I'll definitely be on the lookout for it!

Looks good. I'll keep my eyes peeled as well.

Theobroma would mean "God's Odor" or "God's Smell" in Greek.

It's either not a Greek word they're translating from, or there are alternate meanings out there more apropos than yours.

From the Dogfish Head website:

As per the analysis, Dogfish Head’s Theobroma (translated into 'food of the gods') is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from our friends at Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds).

Lord_Byron wrote:Theobroma would mean "God's Odor" or "God's Smell" in Greek.

Who knew that God had B.O.?

ZiggyZoomba wrote:It's either not a Greek word they're translating from, or there are alternate meanings out there more apropos than yours.

From the Dogfish Head website:

As per the analysis, Dogfish Head’s Theobroma (translated into 'food of the gods') is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from our friends at Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds).

As always, our esteemed webmaster is correct. Broma is ancient Greek for food.

I was translating using colloquialisms.

Lord_Byron wrote:I was translating using colloquialisms.

Show off.

I'm not a huge fan of beer although I do imbibe from time to time. I, however, am VERY interested in this beer. I find the field of culinary anthropology most interesting.

Lord_Byron wrote:I was translating using colloquialisms.

$10 bucks says you ran colloquialisms through Spell Check before posting that post.

As for the beer, it sounds good but I worry about the use of chilies. I've had a couple beers brewed with peppers before and they were terrible.

Here's another beer they're recreating from original, long-lost recipes...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970479?GT1=43001

If I find one, I'll pick it up for ya, G!

Saw Schlitz in just about every bar I went to in Chicago this weekend, especially around Wrigley.

VDub26Falcon wrote:

Lord_Byron wrote:I was translating using colloquialisms.

$10 bucks says you ran colloquialisms through Spell Check before posting that post.

As for the beer, it sounds good but I worry about the use of chilies. I've had a couple beers brewed with peppers before and they were terrible.

You can donate the $10 to one of Grant's charities, since I didn't use spell check.

I had a Cave Creek beer with a jalapeno flavoring and it wasn't too bad. Of course, I'm addicted to capsacin.