ancient malt and ale

introduction and update This blog discusses some of the practical and technical details of mashing in , Neolithic and Bronze Age style. It...

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...