
Drink Like A Roman
If you like Roman history, you’ve probably heard they drank wine. At the high point of the Roman empire’s history of wine, around the first century AD, it has been [..]
If you like Roman history, you’ve probably heard they drank wine. At the high point of the Roman empire’s history of wine, around the first century AD, it has been [..]
The Irish were great ones for writing their laws down, and the many existing law-texts, whole or in fragments, give us enticing glimpses of how things were done as far [..]
In Charlemagne’s far-reaching regulation of agriculture, he included bees and their wax and honey. His Capitularies, circa 794AD, give very specific guidance on estate and farm management, revenue collection for [..]
Nottingham has a complex network of brewing caves that used to support a thriving malt export tradeI have recently found pictures of medieval English malt kilns, and have been poking at [..]
St. Paul’s Cathedral’s brewhouse grain bill for Anno Domini 1286, from the Domesday Book. I mean, how cool is this? For those of you who read the paper of Karl [..]
If you are a medievalist, and a brewer, I would recommend you read this paper. I think so strongly enough that I’m putting it here in several forms – pick [..]
One of my very first books on mead making was Making Mead (Honey Wine): History, Recipes, Methods and Equipment by (Dr.) Roger A. Morse. I’ve seen references to his name [..]
I first heard of Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey in one of my very first mead books – Acton & Douglas, perhaps, or Roger Morse. he was this mysterious figure, a [..]
Historical Storyteller Thor Ewing posted this on his website back in 2002 – another supposedly from the Exeter Book, originally in Anglo-Saxon. I’m beginning to think its riddles are infinite, [..]
The Anglo-Saxons were great riddlers. An author I genuinely respect, Cindy Renfrow, says this is Riddle 25 from the Exeter Book, or Codex Exoniensis, a tenth century book of [..]
Can you answer this riddle? I am man’s treasure, taken from the woods, Cliff-sides, hill-slopes, valleys, downs; By day wings bear me in the buzzing air, Slip me under a [..]
If you’re interested, the first documented instance of hop cultivation is in 736 in the Hallertau region of modern Germany. The first mention of using hops in brewing in Germany [..]