The Travels and Discoveries of a Beer Historian
I was invited to have some fun trying Samuel Adams NA(non-alcoholic) beer, Just the Haze, on a cold and windy winter day in Boston recently and the results are evident in this video! As NA beer is growing in triple percentage points these days across the US, many imbibers are choosing a #dryjanuary with NA beer and NA cocktails like this one. Sometimes it is even difficult to distinguish which beer is alcoholic from the one that isn’t…
Samuel Adams Non-Alcoholic Tank Test
Another enjoyable time talking alcohol history with News@Northeastern about the history of Hard Cider and its place in today’s, and yesterday’s markets.
Sincerely enjoyed this interview and photo-shoot for News@Northeastern where I talk about my journey to where I am now as a Beer Historian and Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University, Boston.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/08/25/beer-snob/
A share via my alma mater, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA:
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by POB with Le Temps d’une Bière podcast for their first-ever English-language episode to talk about the history of the Porter and the English Industrial Revolution. We not only discussed the style of the Porter and its origins but also how taxation, urbanization, and exportation contributed to making Porter the beer-king of the day. I look forward to joining them again soon for more discussions!
On July 10, 2021 I joined Nick to talk about the history of Pilsner with the Beer Got Me Here podcast as part of the Rolling Hops Beer Tour series. I had a lot of fun with this one so please give it a listen.
As part of MIT’s Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative with an Emerging Scholars Grant I recently completed the now-live teaching module, “Taverns and Temples: A Global Architectural History.” This module of four lectures traces the introduction and dissemination of alcoholic substances (beer, wine, spirits) and the spaces of consumption and production across the globe and offers a history of related architectural types (breweries, wineries, taverns, temples, etc.) and how they have changed over time. In addition, they examine the cultural and social factors of the rituals of brewing, feasting, and imbibing and how they connect people in spite of geographical distance. From ancient Mesopotamia and China to Incan chicha and American craft beer, these lectures (with supported teaching materials) offer a truly global look at the production and consumption of beer and other forms of alcohol.
Sunday night/Monday morning I joined Bradley Jay and his show, Jay Talking on WBZ Newsradio 1030 AM to talk about the craft beer industry and the history of beer and brewing. You can listen to the podcast by clicking here: Beer As Craft
In addition, as a bit of bonus check out my interview, “The History of Beer and Empire” with the Breaking History Podcast from 2016. This was the pilot episode of Breaking History, a world history podcast by the graduate students of the History Department at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. You can listen to the podcast by clicking here: The History of Beer and Empire
