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Surviving and Thriving in a Revolutionary Time: 18th Century Brewing and Cocktails

Instructor: Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister This one-day workshop will combine two popular programs, instruction and demonstrations on 18th century brewing and hands-on colonial cocktail building. Led by Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister in period presentation, this workshop will introduce participants to the methods, brews, and experience of a brewer from 1778. You will hear stories of the American Revolution and the variety of ways beer aided in the health and spirits of revolutionaries....

Surviving and Thriving in a Revolutionary Time: 18th Century Brewing and Cocktails Instructor: Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister This one-day workshop will combine two popular programs, instruction and demonstrations on 18th century brewing and hands-on colonial cocktail…

Raising Spirits in Revolutionary Times: An Immersive Tavern Night

Host: Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister Outside of the church, the tavern was the most important institution in most towns. Taverns were used as meeting places for political assemblies and business; places to share news, swap stories, and spread ideas; the site of travel crossroads and community-building. Strangers and neighbours alike came together in these common spaces. It was in the colonial tavern that the revolutionary spirit launched our nation....

Raising Spirits in Revolutionary Times: An Immersive Tavern Night Host: Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister Outside of the church, the tavern was the most important institution in most towns. Taverns were used as meeting places for political assemblies and…

A Cause for Celebration

In solidarity to our American Values minded brethren at Minocqua Brewing Company in Wisconsin, the Regimental Brewmeister is committed to serve FREE BEER for a full month following the death of Donald Trump. In to have the Regimental Brewmeister at your site or event? You can hire me.

A Cause for Celebration In solidarity to our American Values minded brethren at Minocqua Brewing Company in Wisconsin, the Regimental Brewmeister is committed to serve FREE BEER for a full month following the death of Don…

MAGA’s War on Freedom of Religion

The Trump Administration is on a mission to vandalize our national parks, museums, and cultural institutions, stripping all mentions of black history and slavery (as well as mentions of Native Americans, Jews, Muslims, and other minorities) from our public celebrations and monuments about American History. Beyond the obvious racist, white supremacist, anti-American, hate inspired politics of the MAGA party, this represents a fundamental problem with one of our most sacred national institutions – Freedom of Religion....

MAGA’s War on Freedom of Religion The Trump Administration is on a mission to vandalize our national parks, museums, and cultural institutions, stripping all mentions of black history and slavery (as well as mentions of Native Amer…

Help Wanted — Immersion Weekend in New York

I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weekend on 18th Century beverages and tavern culture. The program will include a full tavern in a fully restored 18th Century tavern (we get the whole thing) as well as 18th Century brewing and cocktail classes....

Help Wanted — Immersion Weekend in New York I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weeken…

Help Wanted

The Regimental Brewmeister needs to recruit one or two people to help with upcoming paid events. Most events are in the general Philadelphia area but some require travel. Brewers: Learn to brew as an 18th Century Journeyman brewer. Talk to the public about beer, brewing, and sanitation in the 18th Century. Serve samples. Tavern Keepers: Tasks will be tending bar (mostly prepared drinks but occasional Ale Flip or Smoking Bishop) and teaching 18th Century games (especially Whist), and adding color to the event....

Help Wanted The Regimental Brewmeister needs to recruit one or two people to help with upcoming paid events.  Most events are in the general Philadelphia area but some require travel. Brewers: Learn to br…

🍺 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐎𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭!

Come out and spend a beautiful September afternoon with friends in one of Delaware's most picturesque historic settings. Join us 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟮 for the 13th annual Historic Odessa Brewfest!

✔️ 50+ breweries
✔️ Unlimited tastings
✔️ Live music on two stages
✔️ Great food
✔️ Historic Odessa and colonial brewing demonstration
✔️ America's 250th Anniversary celebration

Advance tickets save money and help support the Historic Odessa Foundation. For tickets and information, visit www.odessabrewfest.com

David Rittenhouse’s Orreries

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun. Orreries were regarded as essential teaching equipment for 18th-century lectures on “natural philosophy” (the physical sciences). Such apparatus became popular from around 1700, when John Rowley built one for patron the Charles Boyle, the fourth Earl of Orrery in Ireland....

David Rittenhouse’s Orreries An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun. Orreries were regarded as essential teaching equipment for 18th-ce…

David Rittenhouse’s Thermometer

In 1767, the American astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) described a pocket thermometer that contained a bimetallic mechanism. Bimetallic or deformation thermometers depended on different expansion rates of two metal strips set into a curl. As the temperature changed, the curvature of the metal curls also changed and moved a pointer along a marked temperature scale. Rittenhouse was studying the variations in the oscillations of the pendulum, caused by the expansion and contraction of the material of which it is made. ...

David Rittenhouse’s Thermometer In 1767, the American astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) described a pocket thermometer that contained a bimetallic mechanism.   Bimetallic or deformation thermome…

David Rittenhouse’s Hygrometer

Wood swells and shrinks about 80 times as much around the growth rings relative to the same section of wood along the length of the fiber. This causes wood of certain cuts to warp when exposed to high humidity. As a clockmaker, this phenomenon greatly frustrated David Rittenhouse so he sought to understand it. Taking two identically sized strips of mahogany and gluing them together so that the grains of one side of the slab are perpendicular to the grain of the other, Rittenhouse built a device that moved as the ambient humidity in the air changed....

David Rittenhouse’s Hygrometer Wood swells and shrinks about 80 times as much around the growth rings relative to the same section of wood along the length of the fiber. This causes wood of certain cuts to warp when exposed to h…