Taliesin on Mead
The Book of Taliesin is a late Middle Welsh version of the ales of Gwion Bach and Taliesin, mostly around the court of Maelgyn Gynedd. It was written in the 1550s, the same [..]
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Guest Riddler Challenge
Today we have a Guest Riddler, known to me as Lady Tsura, guiding light of the Bright Hills Brewers Guild. She’s a brewer (damn fine cyser, I must say). Can you [..]
Answer Me This Riddle
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?
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 [..]
Gillian Clarke poem “Home”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/22/john-lewis-poem-gillian-clarke This poem is part of a window display at the Cardiff branch of department store John Lewis. In the midst of our color-blazing, air-chilling autumn, when I am planning [..]
Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 #0: The Planning
I leave for the third annual U.S. Beer Bloggers Conference (BBC12) on Thursday, so I thought I’d better get myself organized a bit; the way work is rocking I know I [..]
Sometimes students really get it
I used to teach Anatomy and Physiology – a twelve-month long, three hour a week course, half anatomy, half physiology. A&P has a deadly reputation for difficulty and tedium that it [..]
Mystery Afoot: Edinburgh paper sculptures
I have been enchanted following the mystery of the glorious paper scupltures that magically appear around Edinburgh centers of books and stories. Have you seen one? First of all, no one knows [..]
Prepping for the Country Music Marathon, 2007
Blogpost, early 2007 I ran ten miles today. I love my cushy U. Wisconsin at Milwaukee socks, but they’r hotsocks – they bunch and chafe a bit over time. ow [..]
Riesling – an historical grape
DNA studies by Ferdinand Regner indicates that one parent of the modern Riesling vine is Gouais Blanc, known in Germany as Weißer Heunisch , brought to Burgundy from Croatia by [..]
Tempranillo Wine, the rich Spanish red
Tempranillo is a variety of black grape native to Spain. It is called Spain’s “noble grape”, and is the main variety used in Rioja[1]. Spanish cultivation of vitis vinifera, the [..]
Müller-Thurgau : the perfect German table wine
Müller-Thurgau is a white grape created by Hermann Muller from the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1882. However, it is a cross of Riesling with Madeleine Royale[1], which is a [..]