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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5h

Really looking forward to the launch of Donal Fallon's book, "The Dublin Pub: A Social & Cultural History" tonight.

Donal is an absolutely brilliant historian & wonderful interviewer. I had the privilege of being on his podcast Three Castles Burning: threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/porter-wars-...

Three Castles Burning: Porter Wars: Patriotism and Pints (with Christina Wade)

Christina Wade’s new history of Irish beer is a masterclass in social and economic history. In the context of Dublin, it tells us a lot, especially about the challenges that faced breweries in turbule...

threecastlesburning.libsyn.com

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5h

It's a stunning venue! I had so much fun 🍺

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday you can catch me chatting with Susan and Judith Boyle about all things Filthy Queens and Women in Irish Beer History at the Kildare Readers Festival.

Free tickets here: riverbank.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

And of course there will be beer!

Screenshot of Kildare Readers Festival post featuring photos of Christina Wade, Judith Boyle, and Susan Boyle. Includes text stating "Filthy Queens and beer herstory: A conversation with Dr Christina Wade and Susan & Judith Boyle" below reads " When Saturday October 11th 2025; Time: 5:30pm; Where: Riverbank Arts Centre

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday you can catch me chatting with Susan and Judith Boyle about all things Filthy Queens and Women in Irish Beer History at the Kildare Readers Festival.

Free tickets here: riverbank.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

And of course there will be beer!

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 1d

Wish I could attend this as it sounds fantastic

Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 1d

Think While You Drink on Thurs features Local Archaeologist & Brewer Nick Fitzgerald and Heritage Brewer @beernouveau.co.uk. Together, they'll explore what early (pre-historic) beers might have tasted like, and what flavours are still used today.

goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-...

Think While You Drink

Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...

goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway Barnabe is the worst and if you want to ruin your day you can read his book here quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A1071...

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look Barnabe Rich is at it again- this time with eels. He's the reason my book on Irish beer history is called Filthy Queens after his diatribe against the alewives on Dublin. This is also from his 1610 incredibly bigoted work 'New Description of Ireland' @greenleejw.bsky.social talks about here.

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 2d

Let's talk eels & colonization!

In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough.

The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly.

So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5
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Meme. Photograph of a Monopoly board game in Dutch. You're looking at the starting corner, seeing 2 squares in either direction. The directions on the square read:

Ontvang
Bij het passeren
f2000. - salaris
START

So now you know the (or at least a) Dutch word for start.

The game board is sitting on what is probably a table made of a light wood or wood substitute. You can see the grain running left to right, or right to left. Or perhaps east to west. It's hard to tell with grain. The board itself is edged in red, but fear not. It's only red paint, not blood. A blood-edged board would be a far darker shade of red. And a far darker game, over all.

Meme text reads:
"Who wouldn't be
Nervous?"

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 5d

Nice to see the use of a juniper stick to stir the crushed malt. That gorgeous brown colour in the mash tun means a good conversion. This all looks very much like our brew day, similar quantities of malt, same mashing process, same aroma. But you have to run a mash to know about the sweet smell.

Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

Brew day at @kornolfest.bsky.social. Using juniper infusion and mashing with a juniper stick, barley malt. Smells amazing... incredible experience

Metal mash tun with blue insulation and juniper mashing stick.

Metal mashing tun with man holding juniper mashing stick above in wooden put building

Mashing in the barley, image of mashing tun with stick in the middle, stone fireplace in background

Juniper infusing in water in black cauldron over fire in stone fireplace in wooden out building.

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 2d

Idk why alt text doesn't seem to be appearing for me so just in case: video above is taken from side of ferry on way back to Ålesund airport. Shows the boat crossing the water with beautiful mountain scenery in the background

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 2d

Goodbye Norway! Until next time

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 4d

Getting ready for my talk here at @kornolfest.bsky.social

Copies of my book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland sit on top of a wooden and metal table with a whiteboard in the background

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 4d

Alright day 3, let's be having ya @kornolfest.bsky.social. really looking forward to this talk from Xavier Tortosa 'Tradition Reimagined: Applying Brewing Heritage in Modern Craft'

Photo of PowerPoint slides with title Tradition Reimagined: Applying Brewing Heritage to Modern Craft. Next to drawings of various Brewing instruments or drinking equipment

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

At @kornolfest.bsky.social drinking some absolutely stunning farmhouse brews

Pull up sign that says Velkomen til Norsk Kornølfestival. Stairs behind

Big community centre room with tables and chairs and wooden dividers. In the back homebrewers serve theirs ales

Small glass of ale held in a woman's hand. Beer Festival in the background

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

We are doing a traditional Norwegian farmhouse Beer here. As for historically in Ireland, medieval-wise I've touched on this a bit in my book, but basically we don't know what herbal additives were used. Many possibilities

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

The juniper infusion for our brew here at @kornolfest.bsky.social

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

Brew day at @kornolfest.bsky.social. Using juniper infusion and mashing with a juniper stick, barley malt. Smells amazing... incredible experience

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you friend!!! We must catch up soon 💜

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

So far it's absolutely fab!

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 5d

First Beer at @kornolfest.bsky.social

New fresh beer sits on wooden table in candlelight in a wooden house with chairs in the background

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 6d

In Norway for @kornolfest.bsky.social !! I am so so excited.

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 6d

😊😊😊

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 6d

I am so honoured to be nominated, not to mention shortlisted, alongside so many amazing women. An absolute privilege. Thank you so much.

Women In Beer @womeninbeer.bsky.social · 6d

✨WIB Awards✨

Our judging panel has done an incredible work going through more than 280 nominations for the awards, and we are very happy to announce that our shortlist 2025 is out!

Have a look on our website for our awards finalists
https://www.womeninbeer.co.uk/awards

A star-shaped graphic announces "The shortlist 2025 is out!" for Women in Beer. Background features beer-related illustrations.

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Beer Ladies Podcast @beerladiespod.bsky.social · 6d

We spy our own @braciatrix.bsky.social on that shortlist! 🎉

Women In Beer @womeninbeer.bsky.social · 6d

✨WIB Awards✨

Our judging panel has done an incredible work going through more than 280 nominations for the awards, and we are very happy to announce that our shortlist 2025 is out!

Have a look on our website for our awards finalists
https://www.womeninbeer.co.uk/awards

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 7d

Just going over my talk for this! Can't wait!

Norsk Kornølfestival @kornolfest.bsky.social · Aug 27

We're happy to announce that @braciatrix.bsky.social will be speaking at this year's festival on "Drinking with the Dead: Women, Ale, and Ritual in Viking-Age Ireland."

www.norskkornolfestival.no/2025/08/27/s...

Black-and-white portrait photo of a blonde-haired woman.

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 8d

But we've been sweating while you slept so calm
In the safety of your home
We've been pulling out the nails that hold up
Everything you've known

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 20d

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