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timely tipple home timely tipple home blog history of the week research posts about home blog history of the week research posts about beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy except franklin never said that nor is it true that the ipa was invented to last the journey to india the pilgrims went ashore because they ran out of beer or that ale conners sat on benches to test the strength of beer but that is one of the joys of learning and especially with studying the history of beer you re discover what is true and learn how things really happened brewing has been a part of human material culture ever since the neolithic it is intertwined with religious culinary and ethnic traditions as such studying the history of brewing not only covers the scientific technical development of an industry but also ourselves our political games economies rites of passage and daily rituals that is why i decided to start researching it my masters dissertation focused on the faroe islands with a pre viking era settlement incidentally there were some pots with potential beer residue so my adviser and i decided to have a look the results were inconclusive and we were unable to modify our experiments to increase resolution due to time constraints hopefully in the future we will be able to try again but in the meantime the materials will sit in the storage area of the archaeological department this blog then serves as a continuation of my studies whether it s beer from foreign lands drinking rituals or on the legitimacy of residue analysis here you will find my jottings on academic papers interviews and brewing topics i hope to cover are the current knowledge of brewing archaeology the roles beer played in the past and the people acting behind the scenes cheers powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates get started