Chicha
This is the most common ingredient in chicha.
What is maize?
These places have the earliest written record of beer consumption.
What are Egypt and Mesopotamia?
Rice beer has been common in China since the ______ Dynasty.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
This is the term ancient Mesoamericans used for agave wine.
What is pulque?
This is the typical alcohol content of grape wine.
What is 8-14%?
Chicha is known to spoil in less than ______ days.
What is seven?
The beer making process was typically ______ many steps long.
What is seven?
This is the general alcohol content of rice beer.
What is 10-20%?
This is the typical alcohol content of agave wine.
What is 4-6%?
This variant of grape is used in grape wine due to its high acidity, high sugar content, and its resistance to disease and cold.
What is the Vitis vinifera sylvestris sub species?
These are common additives to chicha to enhance its flavor.
What is sugar, cinnamon, and orange leaves?
This was often added to beer after fermentation to increase the amount produces and decrease the potency.
What is water?
This is the most common rice variant used in rice beer.
What is japonica rice?
This is the title of those who make agave wine.
What is tlachiqueros?
There are this many steps in the process of making grape wine.
What is five steps?
The process of fermenting chicha is _______ stages long.
What is twelve stages?
This fruit was often added to beer to produce a better flavor and add necessary sugars for alcohol production.
What are dates?
This process removed minerals, lipids, and proteins from the rice that would otherwise destroy the clarity of the brew.
What is polishing?
A regular agave plant will typically produce this much sap within a day.
What is 3-7 liters?
It takes this many years for the grape vine to produce grapes for wine making.
What is three to five years?
Chicha was often exchanged in large feasting ceremonies for this.
What is labor service?
Near Eastern beer only lasted for a short time, with the prediction being that it would last less than a _____.
What is a week?
This final stage in the process of making rice beer was added during the Tang Dynasty.
What is pasteurization?
The process of making agave wine is ______ many steps long.
What is eight steps?
This ancient problem within wine storage jars caused wine to only be able to be stored for up to five years.
What is the jar's porousness?