Ancient Alcohol

A Taste of Bygone Booze Tour and Beer Tasting

June 5, 2019
18.30–20.00
Buy your tickets here. The $25 ticket includes museum admission, the guided tour and one beer. Discounted designated driver tickets are also available.

Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 

---

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is offering a guided tour of the museum that will focus on early drinking vessels that reveal secrets of ancient Greek drinking games and the beverage served at a feast hosted by King Midas. Get up close to examine one of the world’s oldest wine jars, a queen’s golden beer straw and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that depict alcohol rations for the afterlife.

After you quench your thirst for knowledge of bygone brews on your tour, sit down in the Pepper Mill Café with your own taste-test of Midas Touch, the most awarded of the Dogfish Head brews, created in part by the Dr Patrick McGovern, biomolecular archaeologist with the Penn Museum. This sweet yet dry beer is made based on ingredients found in 2,700-year-old drinking vessels from the tomb of King Midas in Anatolia. Somewhere between beer, wine and mead, Midas will please the chardonnay and beer drinker alike.