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Beer Nouveau @beernouveau.co.uk · 1d

There really are just a couple of tickets left for this talk on Thursday, and that's by squeezing a couple of extra spaces in!
So grab them while you can and come hear Nick and me discuss basically how beer evolved!

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.

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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...

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, that would be lovely. I shall get in touch next time that we are down your way.

merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 20h

No, I'm at the other end of the island, in north Scotland, however I'll be down to Bristol some time soon as I have family there. Hoping that this topic of beer (and malt) in prehistory is going to get people talking. I've been trying for years!

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Beer Nouveau @beernouveau.co.uk · 21h

Grab one of the last tickets to this excellent talk tomorrow where we dive into the origins of beer, and how much it may or may not have changed to give us the modern drink we all know and enjoy!

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 Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 1d

The @kornolfest.bsky.social at the weekend was fascinating. I learned so much. It's a whole new world. Something genuinely different to every other beer festival.
And held in amazingly beautiful place.

A like in Norway. In the foreground is a small jetty. On either side of the lake are steep slopes, mostlly covered in trees.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 1d

What is the legacy of the Vikings? A five year project on the perception of those Norse folk. Interesting, maybe, to some of the people that I know on here.
www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap/

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to be such a useful talk, will it be recorded?

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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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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

Also, the kingdom of the lauter tun is a lot smaller than the sea.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

@judithjesch.bsky.social here's an expert's explanation. A lauter tun is where hot water is run through the mash to obtain the wort which is the sweet liquid that will be fermented by the addition of yeast, or rather, kveik. This weekend has been the @kornolfest.bsky.social Traditional brewing. #ale

Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 2d

It seems to actually be "surf of the lauter tun" and "swamp of the lauter tun". The word "hrosta" means lauter tun, but I guess translators despair of making people understand that.

In Western Norway they still say "rost" for lauter tun. Heard it used many times this weekend.

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Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social · 2d

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Researchers have known that the T-shaped pillars of Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe symbolized human figures, as indicated by the engraved arms and hands on their surfaces. However, this is the first time that a pillar directly portrays a human face.

Historic Discovery in Karahantepe: The First T-Shaped Pillar with a Human Face Unearthed - Arkeonews

For the first time in history, a T-shaped pillar carved with a human face has been unearthed, marking a new milestone in our understanding of

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 2d

Here I am in DR talking about real ale's newest fans - the youth

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Real ale finds favour with younger crowd - Drinks Retailing

Katie Mather discovers why a new generation of drinkers are choosing cask beer Beer is hard to predict. In an industry where trends have been a major driver for change and growth, consumer desire for ...

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Beer Today @beertoday.bsky.social · 2d

Fyne Ales, the independent Scottish brewery based on a farm at the head of Loch Fyne, has launched a new nitro stout, Rook beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/06/f... #beer #beernews #stout #nitrostout @fyneales.bsky.social

Fyne Ales add nitro stout to their range - Beer Today

Fyne Ales, the independent Scottish brewery based on a farm at the head of Loch Fyne, has launched a new nitro stout, Rook

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual #archaeology project.

Western Isles job opportunity with new virtual archaeology project

Augmented reality at Cladh Hallan, South Uist. The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual archaeology project. The full-time position, which runs from January 2026 to May 2027, is to help deliver the new Barra and Harris Unearthed project. Since it was launched in 2021…

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

What an interesting pile of carbonised neolithic era grain.

David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 6d

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First evidence for food production in continental Europe dates to the late 7th (Southeast Europe) and the 6th mill. BCE (Central and Western Europe). Early farming practices, were not static and underwent considerable changes in the centuries following their arrival.

Farmers in the Rhineland were diversifying cereal cultivation in the early Neolithic period - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops almos...

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

There's a question that I would love to ask: is it malted? Because when I look closely at this batch of carbonised grain I can see that there's some damage, several missing embryos (the more you look the more you see) and this might perhaps indicate what sort of processing this grain has undergone.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

Rye straw. Almost as tall as me! Here's where I start, with half a bundle of rye. It will be made into baskets of various sizes and I'll save a few seed heads to sow next year. #rye #straw #Orkney #strawwork

A bundle of harvested rye on the ground beside a storm battered garden, it is about five feet long.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 2d

Still rather intrigued by this Bronze Age food vessel style pot, with a handle. It doesn't look like a it would work as a drinking vessel. What was it for? It was found in a child's grave (age unknown). Lovely little pot. @cotswoldarch.bsky.social?
cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/museum/food-...

Food Vessel - Virtual Museum

This food vessel was uncovered intact next to the skeletal remains of a child that had been buried in the centre of one of the barrows.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 3d

As a parent who visits grown up children, I laughed out loud at this!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 3d

Awww gosh thanks, I'll post pictures. I'm looking forward to hearing the two (almost three) year old granddaughter say 'turtles and tortoises' when she gets them for Christmas.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, I do follow a pattern though. I'm going to make some with flippers, so I have tortoises and turtles.

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