ancient malt and ale

We have spent some 10 years arguing that that the "first farmers", the Neolithic culture that brought cows, crops and ceramics to ...

Mead is frequently mentioned in the early Germanic literature, more so than ale. This, together with the Saxon mead halls of the poetry, g...

It seems that malt is a very confusing thing. The word 'malt' means different things to different people. Some people immediately th...

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...