Translation from the writing's of Strabo reveal how the people of Liguria drank a barley beer!
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An update to the Brewing Nordic website and how they plan to brew gruits with bog myrtle come August.

Ron Pattinson has the dream of putting on a historic lager festival! A festival I could get behind. Hope it will happen!
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Analyzing what Shakespeare meant by the phrase “He shall charge you, and discharge you, with the motion of a pewterer’s hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer’s bucket”.

A thorough argument stating that the boom of whisky in the country is rooted to the immigration of Americans who settled in Upper Canada.

A recently published paper on improving methods used to detect food within the archaeological record.
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The history of brewing in Idaho, including bakeries that were attached to brewhouses.

Seeing as Switzerland is my new home, this article was particularly interesting to me. 

"Dr Francesco Carrer, from Newcastle University, said: "This evidence sheds new light on life in prehistoric alpine communities, and on their relationship with the extreme high altitudes. People travelling across the alpine passes were carrying food for their journey, like current hikers do. This new research contributed to understanding which food they considered the most suitable for their trips across the Alps."

The folks over at Lost Lagers have started a homebrew class focusing on historic brews!

A look at 'The Original' periodical, where author Thomas Walker recommended which types of beers to drink during your meal.

A translation of Strabo's work about grain usage by the Gauls.
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A look into the Danziger Jopenbier style, a spontaneously fermented, low-level alcoholic brew from Germany.

As I am sure it is to no major surprise to anyone, Dr. Patrick McGovern has released a new book, at least according to the plethora of articles about this new book. Not sure how it differentiates from his previous work, but it certainly will promote the brewing archaeology field! And, perhaps, more funding (which it really needs).

A nice write up on brewing in Mesopotamia.
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Apparently, the famous explorer James Cook brewed a mean Spruce ale.
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On the history of distilled spirits.
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Off Color Brewing teamed up with the Field Museum to brew a beer based off an ancient Chinese recipe.

Your weekly translations, this time about the Vindolanda tablets! 
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Continuing research into 1920's German brewing.

More discussion on whether it's possible to make beer from unmalted grain.
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A brief look into how IPAs have evolved over time, and how we should create subcategories for the popular style.
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An interesting examination of the predecessor to the porter style.

"In the past, I’ve drawn attention to the fact that there were thread variants apart from the well-known “three threads”, a London beer type of the early 1700s. Three threads, aka three thirds, was a mixed beer which preceded porter and for which porter emerged after 1720, or IMO, as a substitute. There were two threads, three threads, four threads, and six threads, at least, and apparently also, single thread."
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Research into why we use micro instead of mini to describe independent brewers.
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 I just moved to Switzerland.
 
Overall this is a good change of scenery, both for me and my now fiance (I’m also getting married), despite the fact we had no choice…

Backstory time: Some of you may have noticed that my posting has dropped off as of late - my last post was at the end of February. Not how I intended to start this year. Seeing that it is now July, and I already missed my one year anniversary, I had a look back at the progress I had done, and these past two months have not been pretty.

In an effort to clear my head – plus I hate being vague online - I figured it would be good to post what has been going on behind the screen.
 
I have been pulling massive overtime for the past four months in an area I was forced into. The joys of working at a startup. I was initially brought on to write articles on current topics within biotechnology. Then, due to a push for the company’s A-round funding, I was told to make sales calls. On the few days I had a normal 8.5h working day, I was just too exhausted to research anything. To top it off, when things were starting to look like I would go back to writing articles, the content department was shut down. So I was no longer needed. 

Then the panic really set in. Being an expat and all, joblessness has the added bonus of being kicked out of the country. My visa and job were expiring, and the small window I had to get everything in order was quickly closing. I could have tried to find another job here in Berlin, but since I’m foreign, most employers don’t want to go through the paperwork. This would need much more time than I had.