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The Ancient Magic of Malt: Making Malt Sugars and Ale from Grain Using Traditional Techniques

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Merryn Dineley 1 ✉
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The transformation of grain into malt, malt sugars and ale is a three step process. First, the controlled germination (malting), then ‘mashing in’ and collecting a sweet liquid known as wort and finally, the fermentation by pitching the yeast which converts the sugary wort into an alcoholic beverage. Each step requires different conditions for the process to work. They cannot be combined...

Midsummer Music

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Country

  • United Kingdom

Tickets are now available for our biggest evening event of 2024, where music and storytelling come together on the Summer Solstice! We will have live performances from award-winning musicians from across Scotland and beyond.

Book Review: Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies by Theresa Emmerich Kamper

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Carol van Driel-Murray 1 ✉
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This volume on prehistoric tanning technology is the revised and expanded version of the dissertation submitted to Exeter University in 2015. It is noteworthy in that it places experiment at the heart of the entire research programme, thereby radically changing the perspective from which archaeological and ethnographic artefacts might be approached...

European Textile Forum 2024

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Organised by
Katrin Kania

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  • Germany

As our focus topic this year, we have "Edges and Embroideries", so we will explore two things that may not have too much in common at first glance. But if we look closer... there are connections!

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2020

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Stefanie Ulrich 1 ✉
Publication Date
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The 19th issue of the periodical includes 19 essays over 231 pages which present the contributions of the EXAR conference held in 2019. The annual report (Jahresbericht, p.225) and the instructions for authors (Autorenrichtlinien, p.229) of Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa can be found at the end...