Taro, Brewer's Guild Head, reports that the Royal Brewer Competition will be held the second Saturday of Lilies, 2 pm at the Permanent Shelter near the main Battlefield.

A walk through old town Nuremberg, Germany takes visitors back in time to the Middle Ages. An 11th century castle, toy museum, the home of Albrecht Dürer and over six acres of brewing tradition make for a memorial travel location. Russ Juskalian of the New York Times Travel section has the story.

Those interested in Nordic culture, especially when it comes to brewing, may want to take a look at a scholarly article by Christie L. Ward entitled Norse Drinking Traditions, delivered to the Alexandrian Company Symposium on Food and Festival in the Middle Ages. The paper is available to read or download on Scribd, the digital book and document website.

Most people recognize, with a smile, the beautifully-carved, and imaginatively-named pub signs that grace the English landscape, but few realize that the signs date back to the Romans. The Inn Sign Society offers a history of pub signs, along with some nice examples, on its website.

New small cider and mead breweries are cropping up in Maryland, part of a larger resurgence in these drinks. The brewers are mixing traditional methods with modern sensibilities, like focusing on locally-grown ingredients.

Archaeologists have long known that Vikings loved their ale, but, according to Merryn and Graham Dineley, the experts have seldom considered just where the ale was brewed. Now, a new study speculates that stone structures in Britain, once believed to be bathhouses, might actually have been brewhouses.

What is believed to be a large wine press, dating to the 6th or 7th century, has been discovered beneath the streets of Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality in Israel during modernization of the city's infrastructure. The installation was the first important Byzantine structure in the city. (photo)

Their Excellencies, Master Phelim Gervese and Mistress Myfanwy ferch Eifion, Baron and Baroness of Bryn Gwald, invite you to celebrate Candlemas with us on February 2, 2013, and be part of the championship of the Arts and Sciences in the finest Barony in the land!

Rhythm & Brews 2013 will be held on the weekend of Friday 15th - Sunday 17th, February, 2013. The event will be held at Camp Kariong. (Formerly Kariong Scout Camp) Woy Woy Rd, Kariong. NSW.

Blessings and cheers to the grand Kingdom of the East. The Abbey of St.  Aegir in the Shire of Eisental along with the Brotherhood of Brewers in the southern region are opening the abbey doors so the good gentles of the East may further their brewing skills. 

Come to our day of feasting and fun on the Eve of the Epiphany. Bring your Bardic entries and your brewing delights for our competition. Enjoy a day of feasting, music, dancing, and tale telling. The Bright Hills Cooking Guild will be providing a day board and mid-winter feast. Wear your finest and celebrate the season.

Join us for a day of games, wages, prizes, and fun for the whole family.

Stracathro Fort near Stirling, Scotland, the world’s most northerly Roman fort, may have been served by a wine bar or pub. Archaeologists woring on the Roman Gas Project discovered a settlement adjacent to the fort including "a large square room – the equivalent of a public bar – and fronted on to a paved area, akin to a modern beer garden."

Come join us as we celebrate the Barony of Starkhafn's Yule.

Brewers and Mjöðr masters start your batches! As Norsemen are wont to do, we will be hosting a Mead Tasting so prepare your best brews, break out your tastiest mead and share your talent with the Barony. Must have Photo ID to participate.

Lochtoberfest, Barony of Loch Salann September 29, 2012. Please join us for Games, Contests, Beer, Sausage, Prizes

Lady Elynor of Glastonbury, of the Barony of Three Rivers, reports that "Sweets for the Sweet" will return to this year's Lilies War in the Kingdom of Calontir.

Come join us in the wonderous lands of Bordeaux, France for a day of fighting (light and Heavy,) archery, heraldry, feasting, Brewing and A&S
 
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Drunkenness in Elizabethan England was not a rare occurance, to the extent, in fact, that satirist Thomas Nashe cataloged eight specific types. The website Lists of Note published Nashe's piece Eight Kindes of Drunkennes.

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 the Baronial Brewer of Ponte Alto Aveline Scargill will be hosting a beginning mead brewing class at her home in Ashburn, VA. 

The Barony of Bryn Madoc would like to cordially invite you to join us for Dreamstone XXXIII on April 20-22, 2012 to celebrate the battle of Agincourt and our Heroic Inspirations in a day of tournaments and fun.

Let it be known that the Colleges across the great Kingdom of Lochac, who seek to determine which of their number is the finest, have hence declared war on one another.

The East Kingdom Brewers' Guild and the Shire of Endewearde are bubbling with joy as we join to host the The Reinvention of the East Kingdom Brewer Collegium - for brewers by brewers.

Curators at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, Germany know they have a well-aged wine, but are unwilling to crack open the bottle for a taste. The vintage in question is a 4th century wine found in a Roman grave, which has stood in the same spot in the museum for 100 years.

The Barony of Tir Ysgithr is pleased to host the first War Practice of the new year on Sunday, January 8, the day after Kingdom 12th Night, also to be held in Tir Ysgithr. 

The fall harvest is in. Come spend a day with the people of Greenlion Bay and taste the fruits of the harvest. Winter is almost upon us. Help us celebrate the changing of the seasons with a feast and a dance at the main tavern in the area.

It is a time of joy and celebration as the Principality of the Mists come together to bear witness to the investiture of our new Prince and Princess.

Come out and play with us. Test your skills, place some wages and win some prizes. There will be Games of Chance all day for fighters and non-fighters alike.

Once a brewery, now a home, Albion Castle in Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, complete with underground underwater cavern, is for sale for US$975,000. (photos)

Recession got you down? The Barony of Vinhold invites you to its All Hallows Feast October 22, 2011 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. to join the Danse Macabre leading noble, merchant, peasant and pauper through the travails of famine to the joys of feasting.

The editors of the Telegraph pay homage to everyone's favorite brew with a slideshow of photos entitled An illustrated history of English beer.