Archaeologist Donna Nash explained the reason for her recent experiments on reproducing Wari Chicha. It was part of a chat about the Wari and the role chichi played in their society and diplomacy.
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This is the earliest ad for Spaten Helles, or "Helles Lagerbier nach Art des Pilsener Biers" (pale lager beer in the style of Pilsener beer) as they call.
They started serving it on 20 June, 1895, and on 22 June, newspapers were full of ads for it, e.g. this one in the newspaper "Das Bayerische Vaterland".
I have an announcement to make: on March 9, 2024, I'll be talking (in German) about Vienna Lager and its history at the Heimbrau Convention at Schloss Romrod.
I couldn't let go of the whole topic of Keesmann and Mahr, so here are more details I was able to find out. I also got side-tracked a bit and found out an interesting little detail about Brauerei Heller (aka Schlenkerla).
If you're interested in the breweries of 19th century Bamberg, I have good news: I updated my map from July to not only list all 1818 breweries, but also the ones that were around in 1876. During the research for it, I stumbled upon a small mystery involving Keesmann and Mahrs.
I won‘t make it on any "40 under 40" in my lifetime anymore, and I can’t invite everybody to my birthday party today, so to celebrate and share the joy of me getting officially old, I decided to make my Vienna Lager e-Book available for free on Amazon. Get it here, only for a limited time (i.e. today): https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Lager-Andreas-Krennmair-ebook/dp/B08CMH6L9H/
Historical beers--recreated recipes/approximations from a specific time or place, not just an "old" style like gruit)--what's their role in modern beer?
Do they sell? Are they popular with customers? Do they have an impact?
The best time at #Oktoberfest#Munich must have been around 1897, when you could drink Märzenbier and Wiener Kaiserbock from Anton Dreher's brewery in Kleinschwechat near Vienna.
Yes, literally #viennalager served at Oktoberfest!
If it comes up, people often mention (or grumble) that the fed government used states' dependence on highway funds to force a nationwide drinking age of 21.
But 21 was actually the typical age until about 1969. States in red are 21, blue is 18, stripes are hybrid, and orange is 20. So what changed? #beer#beerhistory#history
The pithy answer is the Vietnam War. The real answer is that the political agitation of American youth between student activism, counterculture, and antiwar sentiment got strong enough to manifest in legislatures.
The 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971, and drinking ages followed. #beer#beerhistory#history
From 1971-1975, a majority of states lowered their drinking ages to some extent, often to 18 (the green states are 19).
The changes were a bit more fluid that this image suggests. Montana, for example, lowered to 19 in 1971, then again to 18 in '73. #beer#beerhistory#history
If those maps make you think these laws were controversial...well, they were. A drinking age of 18 meant high schoolers could drink, and more easily buy for underage classmates. 'Beer bashes' and keggers were on the rise, spurred on by shameless brewery marketing departments. #beer#beerhistory#history
Young Americans were generally happy about this, but their parents and grandparents (plus some older Boomers who changed tunes once they aged out of their party years) weren't.
But it wasn't just moral panic. By the mid-70s, alcohol was a factor in a majority of traffic deaths, moreso among youth. #beer#beerhistory#history
So by the late 70s, states were already ticking up their drinking ages here and there. They didn't all snap back to 21, though. Many flirted with hybrid models or ticked up to 19 to try and target high school drinking. But very few, you'll see, stayed at 18. #beer#beerhistory#history