
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 [..]
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 [..]
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? [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 – [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]