Slainte: Would You Drink a Beer from 1574? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts
& Humanities Research Festival 2023. In September 2021, after
several years of preparation, the FoodCult team recreated a beer
last brewed in the sixteenth century. In Ireland and across early
modern Europe, beer was central to social life and a vital source
of nutrition. But up to now, we have had little sense of what that
beer was like, how strong it really was, and how much energy it
provided. By reconstructing the recipes, equipment, and techniques
used at Dublin Castle four hundred years ago, the team set out to
answer these important questions. Undertaking this project was an
immense interdisciplinary effort, bringing together historians,
archaeologists, scientists, craftspeople, and also storytellers and
creative audiovisual artists. Each step of the journey was
documented by a film crew who followed the adventure through
archives, fields, kitchens and laboratories, capturing the rich
atmospheric sound and visuals sights of the experiment. Drunk?
Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing, was followed by a
discussion with renowned food and drinks historian, Marc
Meltonville, and Prof Susan Flavin, the FoodCult project leader.
The event is also features an opportunity to hear from Maurice
Deasy, a brewer who is working to bring heritage skills and
ingredients to the modern brewing industry, and to taste some of
the beers produced by Canvas Brewery using heritage Irish grains.
Chaired by Prof Ruth Burton, School of Creative Arts. This film is
an output of the FoodCult Project (Grant Agreement 803486), funded
by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. For more
information, visit: https://foodcult.eu/ Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/