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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Slainte: Would You Drink a Beer from 1574? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
Description: Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.
In September 2021, after several years of preparation, the FoodCult team recreated a beer last brewed in the sixteenth century. In Ireland and across early modern Europe, beer was central to social life and a vital source of nutrition. But up to now, we have had little sense of what that beer was like, how strong it really was, and how much energy it provided. By reconstructing the recipes, equipment, and techniques used at Dublin Castle four hundred years ago, the team set out to answer these important...