Blogs Posts on "About The Beer"

Dining and Dwelling Part 4 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 20, 2009Part four of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here,  part two here and part three here) CONCLUSION So, what is the evidence for brewing? First, the experiment worked. Fermentation caused by wind-blown yeast even occurred in the leftover mas...

Dining and Dwelling Part 3 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 18, 2009Part three of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here, and part two here) Our first brewing experiment was carried out at Billy’s home in Headford, Co. Galway, in August 2007. In an effort to make the experiment authentic the equipment had t...

Dining and Dwelling part 2 by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 16, 2009Part two of Dining and Dwelling publication (Part one here) THE GREAT MYSTERY OF PREHISTORIC BREWING. In prehistoric times until the late Iron Age, metallurgy was limited to small hand tools and high-status items. Throughout prehistoric Europe one o...

Dining & Dwelling by Moore Groups Blog on Sep 14, 2009Last year Billy and Declan gave a presentation at the National Roads Authority’s annual archaeology seminar about the fulacht beer theory. You can see a video of the presentation here. The resultant  monograph Dining and Dwelling has just bee...

Comments on the beer at YouTube by Moore Groups Blog on Aug 25, 2009To date there have been 10, 650 views of the fulacht video on YouTube (produced by BigYes). Later this week we’ll be attending the launch of ‘Dining and Dwelling’ – the 6th monograph in the NRA monograph series, which will see...

Moore on Beer by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 23, 2009Okay: It’s not exactly TED. But anyway, here’s our (Billy & Dec’s) presentation at the 2008 NRA Seminar (Dining and Dwelling) which is due for publication next month. Entitled: ‘Fulachta fiadh and the beer e...

Ancient Egyptian Barley by Moore Groups Blog on Jul 21, 2009Via our daily Google Alert email we learned of some interesting research into ancient barley at the University of Warwick, where ‘boffins’ have recovered significant DNA information ‘from a lost form of ancient barley that triumphed for over 30...

9,000 Year Old Beer – Chateau Jiahu by Moore Groups Blog on Jun 10, 2009Via Archaeoblog: 9,000-year-old brew hitting the shelves this summer This summer, how would you like to lean back in your lawn chair and toss back a brew made from what may be the world’s oldest recipe for beer? Called Chateau Jiahu, this blend of...

A Big Beer Poster by Moore Groups Blog on May 26, 2009Here’s a poster we debuted at WAC 6 – Due to the always-unexpected Irish rain it was very quickly destroyed…. We did get our money back!

ICB Beer of the Year 2009 by Moore Groups Blog on Apr 12, 2009Congratulations to Aidan and Ronan at Galway Hooker on being awarded ICB Beer of the Year 2009. From the Irish Craft Brewers website: “Galway Hooker has featured in the ICB awards since their inception in 2007. This year it returns to its plac...