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Brewing the Past: A Journey into History Through Beer and Film
Talk with Trinity | 26 March 2025

Yesterday, we were delighted to present Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing as part of Trinity College Dublin’s Talk with Trinity public series at Unit18. This session brought together community members for a special screening of our short film exploring our journey towards recreating historical beer and brewing processes.

The film forms part of FoodCult’s broader mission to uncover the role of food and drink in shaping society, culture, and politics. After the screening, we enjoyed a lively Q&A and discussion with a fantastic and engaged audience.

A huge thanks to everyone who came along—and to Trinity’s Community Engagement team for hosting!

Susan Flavin2025-03-27T13:39:22+00:0027 March 2025|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Discovering the Past Through Beer: A Special Film Screening and Discussion

As part of the Glasnevin Cemetery Spring Lecture Series, a screening of Drunk? will take place on March 19th at 7:30 PM.

Venue: Milestone Gallery, Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin D11 XA32

Admission is free but booking is recommended: booking@dctrust.ie or info@dctrust.ie. Or 01 882 6550

Susan Flavin2025-03-19T10:21:47+00:0019 March 2025|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies (USIHS)

On Thursday 6 February 2025 the USIHS will screen Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing. The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion and reflection on historical recreation as a methodology, and its potential for radical cross disciplinary collaboration.

Details and Booking

Susan Flavin2025-01-23T16:27:25+00:0023 January 2025|blogs, Conferences and talks, Events, News, Results|

Film Screening at Newlin Grist Mill, Pennsylvania

Newlin Grist Mill will host a special screening of our documentary Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing on 16th November at 6 pm. This will be followed by live Q&A with Marc Meltonville, FoodCult’s lead brewer.

Find out more

Susan Flavin2023-11-14T14:10:57+00:0014 November 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

Documentary Launch

We had a full house on Friday, European Researcher’s Night, for the launch of our brewing documentary. We are looking forward to sharing the film freely in the coming weeks. Our thanks to the Long Room Hub for hosting the event, and to all our guests for attending. Special thanks to Maurice Deasy from Canvas Brewing who came along to talk about traditional brewing from a contemporary perspective (and for allowing us all to taste his fantastic beers).

Susan Flavin2023-10-02T14:57:51+00:002 October 2023|Events, Media|

Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing

Announcing the launch and screening of a documentary on brewing beer from the sixteenth century. The film is directed by Prof Shreepali Patel, a Bafta winning film maker based at University of the Arts in London. It was produced in collaboration with Storylab at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. It follows the team of FoodCult researchers from the archive, through fields, the brewhouse, and finally the laboratory in our journey to recreate and understand early modern beer.

The Screening will take place at the Long Room Hub on Friday 29th September at 1830. It will be followed by discussion with the project PI, Dr Susan Flavin, the film’s director BAFTA winner Prof Shreepali Patel, renowned food and drinks historian, Marc Meltonville, and heritage brewer Maurice Deasy from Canvas Brewery, Co Tipperary.

The event forms part of Trinity’s European Researchers’ Night and the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Booking Only: Register Here

Susan Flavin2023-09-21T10:25:25+00:0021 September 2023|Events, Media, News|

Posthumus Conference Keynote

On 24th May, Susan gave a keynote lecture at the Posthumus Conference, hosted at the University of Antwerp. The conference theme was ‘food inequalities’ and the lecture focused on the the value of interdisciplinary research and practice based approaches to understanding diets in the past.

Susan Flavin2023-05-28T12:29:53+00:0028 May 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

International Barley Hub Seminar

On 2nd February, Susan will present a talk on ‘Bere and Brewing History’ at the IBH seminar. The seminar is focussed on working with heritage barley, and the talk will share the FoodCult teams’s experience of recreating sixteenth century beer with bere.

• Register here

Susan Flavin2023-02-01T12:01:34+00:001 February 2023|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Society for Historical Archaeology Conference 2023

On 6th January 2023 the FoodCult team presented a panel of 7 papers at the SHA annual conference in Lisbon. These papers represented individual ongoing workpackages, but also our efforts to integrate our approaches towards developing a deeper understanding of diet and food culture in Ireland.

Susan Flavin2023-01-12T12:44:27+00:0012 January 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

Ales Through the Ages

Marc Meltonville, FoodCult’s ‘Brewer in Chief’, will present a paper featuring our recent research at the ‘Ale Through the Ages’ Conference at Williamsburg VA. The paper, ‘Beer & Roses, building a Tudor brewery’ reflects on the process of recreating historic beers and the challenges of authenticity. The conference runs from 11-13th November.

Register for the Conference

Susan Flavin2022-11-10T15:15:06+00:0010 November 2022|Conferences and talks, Events, News|