Dung-Flavored Beer Brewed Anew on Scottish Island

LONDON (Reuters) - Even the keenest beer drinker may hesitate before sampling
the latest beverage on sale in the Orkney islands off northern Scotland -- a
``Stone Age'' beer flavored with animal dung.Historians have recreated the
recipe after uncovering what they claim is a 5,000-year-old pub and brewery
on the remote archipelago.Merryn Dineley, a Manchester University historian
and chief brewer of the ancient liquor, told the weekly paper The Observer
Sunday that the brew was ``quite delicious.'' The ale is brewed in clay pots
with traces of baked animal droppings.Dineley examined stone-lined drains
running under houses in the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in the Orkneys
and found evidence of a kiln for malting grain and traces of a cereal-based
fermented alcohol.