2026 / Beer History / ResearchBeer History / ResearchПБПA study of a 1756 archival plan tentatively associated with the Bakszty (Bakshty) estate in Ashmyany County. The labels for kettles, the malt house, spirits stores and an ox stable suggest that brewing and grain-spirit production may have operated together at this estate complex.
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2026 / Culture and everyday lifeCulture and everyday lifeПБПHow did coffee transform the morning habits of noblewomen in the eighteenth-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth? Historian Jędrzej Kitowicz recounts how coffee replaced a traditional beer-based breakfast soup known as gramatka and, in his view, helped curb excessive consumption of strong spirits.
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2025 / Related drinksRelated drinksПБПThe history of harelka (gorzałka) and grain-based distillation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, based on Gabriel Rzączyński's 1721 work. Discover how strong spirits were produced, which grains and spices were used, why Gdańsk's anise-flavoured spirit became an export product, and what role distilled beverages played in the culture and medicine of our ancestors.
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