History of the Week

Alcohol History Links November 11 - 18
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Things have cooled (or at least the fear has subsided) down this week, but still hard to wrap my head around whats been going on back home. Time to get back to researching and writing! Anyhow, your weekly history links:
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Malinthalle in Egyptian Brewing

Translations of a text from Theophrastus, stating how Egyptians use Malinthalle (Tiger nuts) in brewing. Be sure to check out the homebrew follow up!
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Pub documentaries

A few links from vimeo which document the current pub scene in Britain.

"The similarity in tone of these films and others — wistful, slightly sad — says something about how the pub is viewed in 21st Century Britain. We suppose it’s because it feels fragile or endangered as an institution that people feel motivated to document it, while they still can."
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The American Brewing Company

The history behind the American Brewing Company in St. Louis.

"One might think A.B.C. was a small player in 1903. Not the case. Kargau correctly explains that most businesses which gain success do so over a lengthy period, but there are “exceptions” and A.B.C. was one. As he showed, St. Louis actually counted fewer breweries in 1903 than 1860, when no less than 40 dotted the city. The reason was telling: the scale and technological sophistication required of brewing by turn of the century meant the future was for large, well-capitalized concerns. Small players could not survive, they hadn’t the time to grow slowly over decades."
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Politics and Beer

Although this doesn't divulge into brewing history, it is a nice short piece on the political situation in the US and the brewing industry.

​"But it's worth mentioning, on a week in which it at least feels like we've had a political earthquake, that elections do matter. And they can affect things as remote and unconcerned with politics as beer. We know this because the beers we drink were in so many ways shaped by politics, near and distant. The history of beer is a political one."
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