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2024 / Beer History / ResearchBeer History / ResearchПБП

What Grain Did Our Ancestors Brew Beer From?

A study of Belarusian folklore and ethnographic sources identified 440 records mentioning beer. Only 92 explicitly identify the grain: 43 refer to wheat, 38 to barley and 11 to rye. These records have been plotted on an interactive map.

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2025 / Culture and everyday lifeCulture and everyday lifeПБП

Culture and everyday life6 min

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

How was beer used in the pagan rites of Lithuania, Samogitia and neighbouring Baltic lands in the sixteenth century? Maciej Stryjkowski’s chronicle records beer in offerings, seasonal festivals, funerals and commemorations of the dead.

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