Blogs Posts on "Fulacht Fiadh"

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...

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!

Drumaskibbole Fulacht Part 2 by Moore Groups Blog on May 6, 2009Author of original report and Site Director: Tom Rogers During Construction works for the realignment of the R284 from Drumaskibbole to Ballygawley in County Sligo, Tom Rogers of Moore Group excavated a fulacht fiadh and two stone trackways (along wi...

Drumaskibbole Fulacht Part 1 by Moore Groups Blog on Apr 10, 2009Author of original report and Site Director: Tom Rogers During Construction works for the realignment of the R284 from Drumaskibbole to Ballygawley in County Sligo, Tom Rogers of Moore Group excavated a fulacht fiadh and two stone trackways (along wi...