[Stones] bronze age ale

[Merryn Dineley]

Well, brewery is an overused word. And has connotations that may be 
innacurate. But, essentially, if you mean a place where beer was made, 
then, yes. The burnt mound and Bronze`Age building at Liddle farm is the 
Orcadian equivalent of the fulacht fiadh.

Merryn


Charles Tait wrote:

> Were burnt mounds breweries?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com>
> 
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:28:08 
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> Subject: Re: [Stones] bronze age ale
> 
> 
> The meadowsweet is pretty good just now. Indeed it does like damp soil 
> conditions. We were smelling the meadowsweet around Brodgar today; there 
> is about half an acre or more of it. As I wandered the car park picking 
> up litter (mostly cigarette butts)in my capacity as a volunteer ranger.
> merryn
> 
> Ric wrote:
> 
>>ah, meadowsweet - if you only knew what that meant to
>>me?
>>
>>one of flowers from which the wizards Gwydion and Math
>>conjured Blodeuwedd - 'flowerlike' - the god Lleu's
>>beautiful consort
>>
>>i found myself in a sunny glade of meadowsweet several
>>years ago, in a part of Wild North Wales, with a
>>hidden brook running beneath my feet, which i could
>>hear but not see ...
>>
>>also noticed meadowsweet growing around the base of
>>Silbury, it seems to like damp soil conditions?
>>
>>;)
>>
>>Ric
>>
>>
>>--- Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>hi Ric, my mail went down for a while so I am just
>>>catching up.
>>>
>>>Well, the fodder bit is interesting. Spent grain
>>>makes excellent animal 
>>>fodder. It is the barley husks that remain after
>>>beer has been made. 
>>>Cows love it.
>>>
>>>I think malts and ale are the only thing you can
>>>usefully do with 
>>>barley. It is impossible to grind unmalted barley
>>>into flour using a 
>>>saddle quern. But you can easily crush the malted
>>>barley. The whole 
>>>thing is complicated to explain but it is simple
>>>really. If you are 
>>>interested then I have some publications?....
>>>
>>>My husband is making some meadowsweet ale just now.
>>>
>>>Merryn
>>
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