I tried the "Midas Touch" brew from Dogfish Head tonight:
His golden touch may have conferred fabulous wealth on King Midas, but he nearly starved to death when even his food and drink were converted into the precious metal.* The well-known legend is based on an actual ruler of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in central Turkey around 700 B.C.* Under a huge mound at the capital of Gordion, a University of Pennsylvania Museum expedition in 1957 excavated an intact burial chamber which likely belonged to King Midas himself.* The body of a 60-year-old male was laid out in state on a thick pile of purple and blue-dyed textiles inside a unique log coffin.**
Most remarkably, the tomb held the largest Iron Age drinking set ever found--157 vessels, including a ram-headed and lion-headed situla--for preparing, serving, drinking and libating a special beverage at the funerary feast of the king.* The secrets of the beverage were revealed by the new methods of Molecular Archaeology.* Dr. Patrick McGovern of the Museum discovered that the residues inside the vessels belonged to a Phrygian cocktail, which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead.* Starting with the ancient chemical evidence, Dogfish Head Brewery* re-created a marvelous golden elixir, trulytouched by King Midas.
www.dogfish.com
It was damn good too. Kind of like a wine-y but also very grain-y tasting Belgian triple fermented ale.
His golden touch may have conferred fabulous wealth on King Midas, but he nearly starved to death when even his food and drink were converted into the precious metal.* The well-known legend is based on an actual ruler of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in central Turkey around 700 B.C.* Under a huge mound at the capital of Gordion, a University of Pennsylvania Museum expedition in 1957 excavated an intact burial chamber which likely belonged to King Midas himself.* The body of a 60-year-old male was laid out in state on a thick pile of purple and blue-dyed textiles inside a unique log coffin.**
Most remarkably, the tomb held the largest Iron Age drinking set ever found--157 vessels, including a ram-headed and lion-headed situla--for preparing, serving, drinking and libating a special beverage at the funerary feast of the king.* The secrets of the beverage were revealed by the new methods of Molecular Archaeology.* Dr. Patrick McGovern of the Museum discovered that the residues inside the vessels belonged to a Phrygian cocktail, which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead.* Starting with the ancient chemical evidence, Dogfish Head Brewery* re-created a marvelous golden elixir, trulytouched by King Midas.
www.dogfish.com
It was damn good too. Kind of like a wine-y but also very grain-y tasting Belgian triple fermented ale.
