ancient malt and ale

A few years ago, we were standing beside the trench of an excavation on Orkney. Lots of serious digging was going on. One of the diggers loo...

  Balfarg: an ancient site on a housing estate The focus of my research changed suddenly, from the British Bronze Age to the Neolithi...

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...