As a historian of beer I am, of course, delighted that Guinness is progressing with its latest Open Gate project in Covent Garden, London, bringing brewing back to the site of the former Woodyard brewery, once one of the biggest porter breweries in London. But if I read once more that porter got its name… Read More No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield and Billingsgate’ The post No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield...| Zythophile
It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and around the ancient city of Nippur, which stood between… Read More No, the ‘Hymn to Ninkasi’ is NOT a recipe for making Sumerian beer The post No, the ‘Hymn to Ninkasi’ is NOT a recipe for making Sumerian beer first appeared...| Zythophile