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The Regimental Brewmeister will be a the Historic Odessa Brewfest on September 6. Please come out!If you have ever wanted to learn to brew as it was done in 1770, I am still looking for team members. https://michaelcarver6048518.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=61874&action=edit Want to have the Regimental Brewmeister at your site or event? You can hire me. https://colonialbrewer.com/yes-you-can-hire-me-for-your-event-or-site/

On August 26, 1768 Captain Cook departed England on his famous voyage aboard the Endeavor. Believing in the healthful qualities of Beer, Cook took along 4 tons of spruce beer. It didn’t last. He had to make several stops along the way to brew more including one notable stop in New Zealand. Want to have …

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When most people think of science, they envision people cloistered away in labs working mostly with other scientists.  This has never been the reality.  Learning is a social activity the demands you communicate with others.  In the 18th Century, this certainly took the form correspondence win notable journals and publications like the Proceedings of the …

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This is intended as satire, not advice…. I know many are frustrated and angry with today’s dysfunctional politics.  Many are wont to engage in violence but as the Regimental Brewmeister, I would be remiss in not pointing out a solution (pun intended) from history — distilled spirits.  Not only do these elixirs have the ability …

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I know lots of you struggle with the idea of civil disobedience.  Marches are easy but ineffective and easily ignored.  Boycotts require enduring a bit of inconvenience and difficulty often equal to the effect they have on their intended target.  None of these are good excuses for disengaging from the struggle but sometimes we need …

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Franklin wrote this satirical piece while serving in London as the colonial agent for several colonies. His numerous letters to London newspapers presenting the colonists’ point of view were often reprinted in colonial newspapers. “Rules by which a GREAT EMPIRE may be reduced to a SMALL ONE” —The Public Advertiser, London, 11 September 1773(as printed …

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I just completed a new program offering. Before electricity, television and the internet, parlor games were a popular form of entertainment to put boredom at bay during the short days and long, dark evenings of winter. For those who could not afford to light the entirety of their home or to keep a fire lit …

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When Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, he also killed his chance to be president. Wanted for murder in New York, he fled the state and went to Philadelphia. Realizing that he had no future on the east coast, Burr, in a frantic effort to salvage his destroyed political …

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For most of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, the practice of home-brewing was common on most farms and homestead, but one beer style was almost exclusively the domain of noblemen and country gentlemen – the “coming-of-age” beer.  These beers, typically extra stout, were brewed and laid down laid down when the son and heir …

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