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Beer is people, places, technology, trade, and memory. Every material gathers separate traces into one story.

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2025 / Recipes and reconstructionsRecipes and reconstructionsПБП

Grodno Beer and Gabriel Rzączyński

In 1721, Gabriel Rzączyński described three wells in Grodno whose water was exceptionally suitable for brewing. We explore the city's water supply, search for its historic wells, investigate the Kuntz brewery and recreate a traditional dark Bock-style beer through experimental brewing.

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Recipes and reconstructions12 min

Gramatka and Butterbeer: What Do Sigismund I and Harry Potter Have in Common?

A historical study of gramatka, English Buttered Beere and European beer soups. Sixteenth- to nineteenth-century recipes, Sigismund I, Harry Potter, spices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and an original reconstruction of a hot beer drink.

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Browar: Brewery or Distillery?

Beer Glasses, Drinking Games and Politics during the Reign of Augustus III

How Coffee Saved Noblewomen from Drunkenness: The Story of Beer-Based Gramatka

How Tyzenhauz Developed Brewing

Grodno Beer and Gabriel Rzączyński

The Dojlidy Brewery: What the 1628 Radziwiłł Estate Inventory Reveals

Brewing in Belarusian Lands in 1704: What the Sapockin Inventory Reveals

Moonshine in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: A History of a Fiery Spirit

Beer in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Work of Gabriel Rzączyński

The Sweet Heritage of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Honey and Mead in Gabriel Rzączyński’s Work

Honey Lakes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Further Notes on Our Pagan Spring Ritual

Our Beer and Mead in 17th-Century Medical Literature

In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, “Borshch” Wasn’t Soup!?

“Beer Festivals” of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century

In the Sixteenth Century, Our Beer and Mead Were Praised in German Lands

What Grain Did Our Ancestors Brew Beer From?

Hare Beer

Orbis Pictus: How a Seventeenth-Century European Textbook Introduced Noble Youth to Brewing

Gramatka and Butterbeer: What Do Sigismund I and Harry Potter Have in Common?

Beer in the Pagan Rituals of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Maciej Stryjkowski