The Best Beer Writing of 2023…
We are very excited to see our Historical Journal article on early modern beer feature on Boak and Bailey’s list of the Best Beer Writing of 2023. The article is open access and freely available to read.
We are very excited to see our Historical Journal article on early modern beer feature on Boak and Bailey’s list of the Best Beer Writing of 2023. The article is open access and freely available to read.
Delighted to chat to the Beer Ladies about the FoodCult Brewing Project and our experiences of recreating a sixteenth-century brewhouse.
At 1 pm tomorrow 30th November Susan and Marc will talk live to Brian O’Connell at Beoirfest about the brewing project. The podcast will be available to listen to later on YouTube.
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.
Delighted to have the opportunity to talk about our research on the RTE 1 Drivetime Show last week.
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).
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
On 28th June, the FoodCult Team presented a panel at the ‘Food Systems’ conference hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield. Through six integrated papers we showcased recent results from the project with a focus on a case study from Carrickmines Castle.
Susan and Marc were delighted to chat with Neil Buttery for the latest episode of The British Food History Podcast. The episode focused on the brewing project, and our experiences in undertaking ‘practice based’ history.
We were delighted to have an opportunity to share FoodCult research as part of a three-episode radio podcast on historic food poverty in Ireland. The show, produced by Berni Dwan and hosted by NearFM, broadcasts every Thursday at 2.30 pm, starting 25th May, 2023. FoodCult featured in the second episode which airs on June 1st.