ancient malt and ale

In the early years of my research, I visited a few microbreweries. I wanted to talk to professional brewers who made ale in the traditional...

The image below might not, at first, seem to have anything to do with prehistoric ale. Or beer even. This is the oak log coffin of the y...

Beakers were for beer. I was told this back in 1995, in my final year as an archaeology undergraduate. There was absolutely no doubt about...

Making your own beer at home is becoming a popular hobby. On the internet there are thousands of videos, web pages and blogs about beer and ...

This blog was started last year but, for several reasons, I didn't keep it up. One thing that I found tricky was learning to understand ...