🎉🍺 Ah, the great Milwaukee magazine: where we pour one out for Schlitz, the beer that’s been dead longer than anyone cares to remember, but hey, let's give it one last awkward salute for old times' sake. Because nothing says "cutting-edge journalism" quite like commemorating a bygone brew with a farewell party no one asked for. 🤦♂️📉
https://www.milwaukeemag.com/schlitz-is-gone/ #MilwaukeeMagazine #SchlitzFarewell #BeerHistory #AwkwardTribute #CuttingEdgeJournalism #HackerNews #ngated
#beerhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #beerhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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The ancient origins of beer - Malcolm Purinton
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In a couple of weeks, on Tuesday, January 27, I’ll be presenting at #McMenamins’ History Pub at the Old St. Francis School, talking about my book "Bend Beer" and local beer history. Doors open at 6pm with the talk starting at 7pm, and will last about an hour.
Come see me!
https://www.thebrewsite.com/bend-beer-history-pub-at-mcmenamins-osf-january-27-with-me/
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Review of Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity
Ethan Shapiro
#Beer #GlobalTrade #GlobalCommodity #BeerTech #Commodity #FoodAndDrink #BeerHistory #History #BookReview #BooksAboutBeer
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/747
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Pourquoi ne pas profiter de ce weekend pluvieux pour regarder cette conférence à propos de la bière en Mésopotamie qui vient tout juste de sortir !
Parfait pour les Journées du Patrimoines non ?"Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia with Tate Paulette" sur la chaîne ArchaeologyTV.
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From ancient wages to craft revolutions, beer’s journey is a tale of invention, culture, and creativity. Here’s how humanity’s favourite beverage shaped our world and keeps on evolving. What’s your favourite beer story? #Beer #CraftBeer #BeerLovers #BeerHistory
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🎉🍺 Ahoy, ye landlubbers! #Smithsonian crafts a 'riveting' tale of ancient sailors and their ale, postulating that beer was the GPS of the high seas. 🍻🤔 Because, clearly, nothing screams "scholarly insight" like recounting how a pint of grog saved the world from maritime misadventures! 🌊🛳️
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/ #ancientmariners #beerhistory #maritimeadventures #nauticalinsights #HackerNews #ngated -
Until 1917, small amounts of Steinbier were still brewed in three breweries in the Austrian state of Carinthia. I managed to find production volumes for these breweries between 1903 and 1917, and they show a clear decline of an already tiny "industry":
https://dafteejit.com/2024/08/the-demise-of-carinthian-steinbier/
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I found an Austrian book about the 1890s American brewing industry at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and documented one actual recipe from it. If you want to brew a historic American corn lager at home, look no further:
https://dafteejit.com/2024/08/an-american-mashing-method-from-the-1890s/
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I came across a newspaper from 1894 that allowed me to directly compare the sizes and operation of the Dreher breweries with the Burghers' Brewery Pilsen: https://dafteejit.com/2024/08/dreher-breweries-vs-burghers-brewery-pilsen-1894-in-numbers/
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I keep a list of resources and scholarship covering beer history & culture on my website, but I know there's lots (and lots) of stuff I've missed.
Anyone want to help me plug some gaps? Whose work am I missing (sorry if it's yours)?
brewedculture.org/resources/ #beerhistory #beer @histodons
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New interview up today with Beer Sessions Radio, talking about the Aber Day Kegger!
Sat down with Jimmy and Cody Ewert of the Montana Historical Society, who's researched the kegger from a totally different angle than I did.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2oEdrFb5cJQjnCY9Bs5G7w?si=d3231548c25b4b33 #beer #beerhistory @histodons
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Or, if you prefer to listen, here's a podcast link. Personally, I think the story's a little richer this way.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sbgC9ROWvoNDhrbAIAaDE?si=e6274a097aa6438f
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July 5, 1921: US government-operated ships begin quietly serving liquor on the Atlantic. During Prohibition.
They got away with it almost a year, then Anheuser Busch caught on and blew the whole thing wide open.
I wrote (and podcasted) about it for Good Beer Hunting a while back.
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Learning about how several of Philadelphia's earliest taverns (~1680s) were actually located in caves** along the Delaware riverbank.
These were literally yards/meters away from the later site of the City Tavern, where the first 4th of July celebration would be held in 1777.
**possibly small clay alcoves they dug themselves, copying an older technique they learned from the Lenape tribe. Still figuring out details.
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US Brewers Foundation, 1955.
I watched fireworks at a festival last night, but instead of hiked up slacks I saw a dude in a shirt that said "It's not treason if you win."
Happy Birthday, America!
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Brasserie de la Croix out of northeastern France. I have a lot of questions.
- White table cloths at an apparent hunting trip?
- Is that peacock supposed to be alive or dead?
- Are there two kinds of beer in that barrel?
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US Brewers Foundation predicting Queens Gambit, 1955.
(also notice the topped off glasses while the modestly-sized bottles are still half full. Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.)
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Remember when brewery ads featured long missives about 65-year old revolutionary movements? Me neither.
This 1914 Anheuser Busch ad lionizing Hungarian leader Louis Kossuth would be like them writing about Nelson Mandela or Fidel Castro today.
(well, not Fidel, or Kid Rock might shoot more beer) #beer #beerhistory #vintagead #history
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Here, I got a hot take about Thornbridge's Burton Union: they should brew a Bavarian Weissbier (aka Weizenbier/Hefeweizen) on it.
https://dafteejit.com/2024/05/thornbridges-old-new-burton-union-my-hot-take/
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Marston's brewery retired their Burton Union systems in early 2024. It was announced yesterday that one of their Burton Union sets was handed over to Thornbridge brewery where it will be used to brew historic beers: https://www.beerguild.co.uk/news/carlsberg-marstons-brewing-company-and-thornbridge-brewery-find-a-new-home-for-burton-union-sets/
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In Munich, 180 years ago today, a three-day riot over the price of beer came to an end. If you've ever eaten at the touristy Schneider-Wiesse restaurant in Munich's city center, you've seen the riot's epicenter.
Here's the fascinating story (from 2020).
https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/13/streets-as-stages-the-munich-beer-riots-of-1844 #beerhistory #history #Germany #Munich
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"Brewers in Bremen, Hamburg, Wismar, and other parts of Northern Germany began shipping hopped beer early in the thirteenth century[!], creating trade for both beer and hops as well as increasing demand for hopped beers."
Excerpt from For the Love of Hops, by Stan Hieronymus, p. 52
People were exporting beer in the early 1200s!
#FoodHistory
#BeerHistory
#hops
#RetroBrewingFirst photo: A replica of a cog, a type of cargo ship in Northern Europe during this period.
Second photo: The main trading routes of the Hanseatic League.
(Photos from Wikipedia)
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Some Beer History
"The cultivation of hops spread to Scandinavia, with the clergy and monarchy often promoting increased hop production. In 1442 Christopher of Bavaria, who was also king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, decreed that all farmers were to have 'forty poles for growing hops.' ... By 1491 hops accounted for 14 percent of the value of Swedish exports."
Excerpt from the book, For the Love of Hops, by Stan Hieronymus
(Billede fra Wikipedia)
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How "Pilsner" lost its geographic indication status in Germany: https://dafteejit.com/2024/04/how-pilsner-lost-its-geographic-indication-status-in-germany/
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CW: Artificial text - it's up to you to check if it's true.
(2/2) ...you're technically "swilling" it away! 😅 #fediverse #tootlog #beerhistory
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Some new reading for my flight to Chicago tonight.
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I wrote about the diversity of beer styles, or lack thereof ("everybody's just brewing IPAs"), how this is not a new phenomenon, and how it affected Germany's beer landscape. https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/the-diversity-of-beer-200-years-ago-and-now/
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CW: Beer history, national socialism, Vienna Lager
I just discovered that the book that was published to celebrate 100 years of Vienna Lager is now available fully digitized online (for context, this was published during WW2, so expect some... questionable references): https://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/content/thumbview/2726477
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CW: Beer history, hops, antisemitism
After looking into Styrian hops a few weeks ago, I also did some more research into Upper-Austrian hops: https://dafteejit.com/2024/02/more-about-upper-austrian-hops/
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This is the earliest ad for Spaten Helles, or "Helles Lagerbier nach Art des Pilsener Biers" (pale lager beer in the style of Pilsener beer) as they call.
They started serving it on 20 June, 1895, and on 22 June, newspapers were full of ads for it, e.g. this one in the newspaper "Das Bayerische Vaterland".
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U.S. craft beer is old enough to have good (or not so good) old days, and for 7 years Theresa McCulla helped immortalize them for the Smithsonian. When she announced her move to an exciting new career, I just had to sit down with her for one last interview. A symbolic exit interview.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2epSqwmuKy2eK32R4ahFCE #beer #beerhistory #histodons #history #craftbeer #podcast
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A few words on charity and beer history for the holiday season, from 1872.
Little known fact: Ebenezer Scrooge was actually editor of the St. Louis Globe before he got into commodities trading and slumlording. It didn't come up much in the book, though.
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If you want, here's the article I wrote about Munich's 1844 riot a while back.
https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/13/streets-as-stages-the-munich-beer-riots-of-1844 #beer #beerhistory #history
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Energized this morning by readings about 19th century riots in Germany over the price of beer. I've written about Munich's 1844 riot before, but there were many more through the middle century.
Finally getting a chance to learn about them in more depth.
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It’s a cold Friday here in Ireland - why not take your mind off the frost with our NEW EP?
You asked for more historical topics, so this time, we welcome Dr Susan Flavin to talk early modern brewhouses & making the film about the research - ‘Drunk?’ - get the story!
https://shows.acast.com/beerladies/episodes/early-modern-brewhouses-with-dr-susan-flavin
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I have an announcement to make: on March 9, 2024, I'll be talking (in German) about Vienna Lager and its history at the Heimbrau Convention at Schloss Romrod.
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Prepping a guest presentation at Northwestern University for tomorrow. I get to talk about Chicago's Lager Beer Riot again, after a looong time with it on the back burner.
Feels good! Planning a lot more content about it in the near future--aspects I don't think anyone else has covered before.
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I won‘t make it on any "40 under 40" in my lifetime anymore, and I can’t invite everybody to my birthday party today, so to celebrate and share the joy of me getting officially old, I decided to make my Vienna Lager e-Book available for free on Amazon. Get it here, only for a limited time (i.e. today): https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Lager-Andreas-Krennmair-ebook/dp/B08CMH6L9H/
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Tossing a question into the void:
Historical beers--recreated recipes/approximations from a specific time or place, not just an "old" style like gruit)--what's their role in modern beer?
Do they sell? Are they popular with customers? Do they have an impact?