Ireland, Scotland, and Bloggers, Oh My!
This woman’s first real Irish Guinness is imminent, be prepared for the ground to shake. I’m going to Ireland for a week, my first time there, and then off to Scotland for [..]
Tag: beer
Will women like chocolate beer?
While my personal jury is still out on putting actual cacao in beer, still…is putting chocolate in beer a viable way to encourage more women to drink and buy it? [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (Part II, mostly Beer)
In my last two posts: the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. British beer blogger Martyn Cornell takes a crack at sorting out the word [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (part I, mostly Ale)
As I started to say in my last post, the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. It may be that we’ve been telling the wrong story [..]
Maybe, maybe not: Beer, Ale, Mead and Wine in Anglo-Saxon England
Beowulf, Bede, Aelfric’s Colloquy – in Anglo-Saxon, there are four words for fermented beverages, and lots and lots of descriptions of what happens when one drinks too much. The four [..]
Gods of Beer, Gods of Whiskey: Michael Jackson
I will not lie: every time I see a reference to Michael Jackson, I think of the King of Pop. This is ridiculous. Michael Jackson – journalist, book author, holder [..]
Historical fermented beverages
JoAnna Carrozzino asked me to write a post about the kinds of period beer. Historical fermented beverage types…funny you should ask…I just whipped off a couple of very quick paper topics to [..]
The first time Hops met Beer
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 [..]
Hops Arrive in England: 1526?
According to The Timetables of History (almost as good as the Guinness Book for leafing through), hops were introduced to England from Artois in 1526. There’s a story there – [..]
Baltimore Beer Week 2012
It’s Baltimore Beer Week! And there is some homebrewing action, boy howdy! Maryland Homebrew sent out an email with so many events on it that I’m not going to post [..]
Congrats to our local GABF Winners!
The Great American Beer Festival held its awards ceremony today. DelMarVa-DC was well represented. Congratulations to our local breweries-done-good! For those of you who don’t know GABF, it is the [..]
The gateway to beer: Braggots (oh how I love them)
It’s a pretty well known phenomenon. There is far more out there asking whether women can like beer than there is about beer for women. There are more women who [..]