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UPCOMING EVENT

Colonial Brewing during Fall FestColonial Pennsylvania Plantation3900 N. Sandy Flash Drive Ridley Creek State Park Newtown Square, PA 19073September 30, 202311:00am – 4:00pm Celebrate the fall season with Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation’s Fall Fest on Saturday, September 30! Enjoy colonial brewing by the Regimental Brewmeister demonstration, cider pressing, pottery making by Wallingford Potters Guild , music …

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Why is it called “giving a toast?”  — Where’s the bread?

Toasting is an ancient tradition which connotes celebration and good times. Today toasting remains an important practice in many cultures around the world. But why do we call it a toast?  How exactly does the word “toast,” as in dry bread, figure into festive drinking? Well, it turns out dunking literal pieces of toast into …

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There has always been a loophole for the elite.

Okay, I have been on a 21st Amendment stream today and this is clearly NOT an 18thg Century topic but it is germane to the Regimental Brewmeister because after the MAGA folks have outlawed abortion and reading, their next targets will be marijuana and alcohol.  So, toughen up your self-publishing, weed growing, and brewing skills …

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Why did I learn to make beer, wine, and distilled spirits?

People come up to me constantly with this question: “How did you learn to brew?”  The short answer – at home – is trivial.  The question I want answer is “why did I learn to brew/distill/make wine?”  Even though I was born decades after its repeal, I learned to brew as a direct result of …

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“Colonials were a despicable people — hardly worthy to call themselves the king’s subjects.”

The French and Indian War gave many British aristocrats their first view into what their American colonists were like. They were not impressed! War thrust people of diverse backgrounds and views into close contact, the French and Indian War was no exception.  Britons and Americans learned first-hand that many of the commonalities that they believed …

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On September 18, 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone for the new US Capitol

The United States originally had no permanent capital city under the Articles of Confederation.  Even when the US Constitution was ratified, it included no mention of a national capitol.  Congress met in eight different cities including New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore before 1791.  In 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, establishing the permanent seat of …

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America’s First True Disaster Area — New Madrid, MO

In the early hours of December 16, 1811, the residents of New Madrid, a Mississippi River town once part of the Louisiana Territory, rushed from their homes as the ground rolled beneath their feet. Trees were uprooted and thrown to the ground. Huge chasms opened in the earth, and the Mississippi River ran backward! Somewhere …

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UPCOMING EVENT

Colonial Brewing during Fall FestColonial Pennsylvania Plantation3900 N. Sandy Flash Drive Ridley Creek State Park Newtown Square, PA 19073September 30, 202311:00am – 4:00pm Celebrate the fall season with Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation’s Fall Fest on Saturday, September 30! Enjoy colonial brewing by the Regimental Brewmeister demonstration, cider pressing, pottery making by Wallingford Potters Guild , music …

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