If you run into this character and he asks you to chew quinoa grains for hours, then spit them out and make beer out of them, don’t run for the hills: it’s for science, and Travis Rupp, world expert on ancient beverages, is not crazy.
Travis is an enthusiast; he travels the world looking for clues, material evidence of ancestral methods (some of which date back several thousand years), and the secrets of making one of the most popular drinks: beer.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/05/26/npr-beer-archaeologists