History of the week

Alcohol History Links november 4 - 11
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What a week it was, too...Hopefully this will provide some distraction!
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John Willy from Chicago

Remembering the hotel guide writer John Willy:

"Modern-day pub crawlers, you have nothing on them.

The drinks described up to dinner point are various: whiskey, Champagne, sparkling burgundy (a pre-Pro favourite in America). But the group itself posed finally the obvious question: where’s the beer, we’re in Milwaukee!"
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Hints of Beer in Iberia

Translations of a quote from Strabo, mentioning beer from Iberia.
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The importance of Open Air Museums

"On the 8th and 9th of September (2016) our whole project team headed over to Sussex to participate in a ‘Knowledge Exchange Workshop’ with the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. In basic terms this involved us telling museum workers some of our findings about work activities in early modern England, and in turn them showing us how some of the activities would have been done in the period. The event was fascinating and fun in equal measure, and I wanted to take the opportunity in this blog to provide a brief account of some of the highlights and offer some thoughts on how this type of interaction between ‘academic history’ and ‘living history’ can be particularly fruitful."
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Indiegogo

Crowdfunding campaign for a beer museum.
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