Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃

Lovely blog about our Think While You Drink public events on beer, drinking, and drinking places in pubs last year if anyone is interested in how they worked and what we did:
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/01/05/b...

Starting to plan for this year so watch this space or sign up to our list

I finally joined after threatening to do it for years 🤣

Thank you so much again for making these!!! They are incredible!

I’ve only just recovered from Sunday evening’s entertainment. Thank you to @braciatrix.bsky.social @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social @lmulligangrocer.bsky.social and everyone that came along. I’d a lovely evening chatting about all things Irish beer with so many Irish beer people!!!

With the dust settled, I just wanted to thank @braciatrix.bsky.social for involving me in this project, LMG for hosting it, and Trouble for brewing the beers - a (very small) part of me wishes I'd have been there. I'm raising a mug of Irish historical-ish porter from a century later to you all ...

Under the Bridge — A Definitive History of Wychwood Hobgoblin — Pellicle My love affair with pubs started in Staines. It’s where I found my tribe—the pub as an expression of individuality, an alternative to bland Britain. But I was afraid at first. In 1996, my British-Asi...

Friends, can I just take a minute to recommend @davidjesudason.bsky.social latest for @pelliclemag.com, A deeply evocative piece, blending stories of Hells Angels with personal anecdotes, I absolutely loved this excellent modern beer history article
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...

The Fox

@beerfoodtravel.bsky.social, you & @braciatrix.bsky.social have done a great job with @troublebrewing.bsky.social - full marks all around!

A promotional flyer on a wood-textured background with hops and beer pints for an event titled “PORTER WARS – Book Talk and Beer Tasting.” At the top, white text reads: “4pm Sunday, December 7th.” Below, large bold white text states “PORTER WARS,” with smaller text underneath reading “BOOK TALK AND BEER TASTING.” Text reads: “Join Dr Christina Wade for a talk on Irish beer in the 18th century. Featuring porters inspired by her book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland Nine Bean Rows Books.” “A collab by Trouble Brewing × Dr Christina Wade × Liam K. of Irish Beer History.” Below this are two Trouble Brewing beer label graphics. One for an English Porter called The Fox and the other an Irish Porter called Fire & Labour At the bottom: “AT L. MULLIGAN GROCER.”

Friends!! Join me Dec 7th from 4pm at @lmulligangrocer for PORTER WARS- book talk and beer tasting!!

We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland

Totally free and non ticketed!

Sorry didn't do the proper tag, so trying this again @troublebrewing.bsky.social

Also, THERE WILL BE COOKIES!! @chaotickitchen_dublin will be there with some delicious cookies she made using these new porters.

So hope to see you there- all welcome!

The talk will also discuss how Liam and I came up with the recipes. Followed by a chat by @troublebrewing.ie about how they brought these to life

From the- arguably- most famous courtesan in Irish history with a wicked streak of Beer snobbery, to grocers swearing only to sell Irish porters, we will learn all about brewing in the 18th century.

A promotional flyer on a wood-textured background with hops and beer pints for an event titled “PORTER WARS – Book Talk and Beer Tasting.” At the top, white text reads: “4pm Sunday, December 7th.” Below, large bold white text states “PORTER WARS,” with smaller text underneath reading “BOOK TALK AND BEER TASTING.” Text reads: “Join Dr Christina Wade for a talk on Irish beer in the 18th century. Featuring porters inspired by her book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland Nine Bean Rows Books.” “A collab by Trouble Brewing × Dr Christina Wade × Liam K. of Irish Beer History.” Below this are two Trouble Brewing beer label graphics. One for an English Porter called The Fox and the other an Irish Porter called Fire & Labour At the bottom: “AT L. MULLIGAN GROCER.”

Friends!! Join me Dec 7th from 4pm at @lmulligangrocer for PORTER WARS- book talk and beer tasting!!

We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland

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Special congratulations to DSN member @braciatrix.bsky.social for making the shortlist (and anyone else we might have missed - let us know!).

Incredibly honoured to have been shortlisted in for @britbeerwriters.bsky.social Best Book About Beer or Pubs alongside the amazing @morrighani.bsky.social and @tabamatu.bsky.social!! Congratulations to all the nominees and can't wait to catch up at the end of November

Really looking forward to heading down to Kilkenny for kilkenomics this Sat where I will be taking part as a panel member on 'Women’s Business: The History of Irish Women in Brewing, Bottling, and Behind the Bar'. Tickets are free but ticketed: kilkenomics.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873679053

Really looking forward to heading down to Kilkenny for kilkenomics this Sat where I will be taking part as a panel member on 'Women’s Business: The History of Irish Women in Brewing, Bottling, and Behind the Bar'. Tickets are free but ticketed: kilkenomics.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873679053

I'm on it! 😊

Oooh yes! Thanks for pinging me! I definitely have a few *absolutely terrible* men that fit the bill for this in Irish Beer History! Particularly as it relates to women who brewed. Medieval, early modern.

Awww yay!! I'm so so glad you enjoyed it!

I had the very best time seeing your wonderful, brilliant, stunning face!!! So great to catch up

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Happy Samhain and Halloween to everyone!!

And it's time for my annual PSA that women brewing in UK and Ireland were not removed from the beer trade via en masse witchcraft accusations and the modern witch stereotype doesn't come from their garb either

a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her . Alt: a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her .

Happy Samhain and Halloween to everyone!!

And it's time for my annual PSA that women brewing in UK and Ireland were not removed from the beer trade via en masse witchcraft accusations and the modern witch stereotype doesn't come from their garb either

My latest documentary with History Hit looks at the witch hunts in 17th century Iceland, where 93% of those condemned as witches were men. Now available at historyhit.com (free trial period available.)

And a huge huge thank you to @womeninbeer.bsky.social
For having such an incredible event. And of course to Eko Brewery for hosting us all, it was fabulous and I was so excited to finally be able to try their beer!!
It was so lovely to see everyone, friends old and new!

I was also honoured to have won the Beer Expert of Year award, where I was shortlisted alongside three amazing women, whose important work always serves as an inspiration to me. It was such an honour to be listed amongst them. And I very grateful and humbled for this award

Backdrop of Women in Beer Awards for photos. Centre is their logo shrrounded by the logos of the institutions and companies that sponsored the event

A glass of beer sits on a wooden table. The beer is a pale ale. The glass reads Eko Brewery established in 2018.

Two awards sit next to each other on a wooden table. One is for Lucy Stevens of Closet Brewing who won Rising Star. The other is for Christina Wade who won Beer Expert of the Year

Outside image of Eko Brewery. Glass fronted building where you can inside your stairs up to the taproom. Their logo is lit up on the top left window which reads Eko Brewery Est 2018

Tuesday I had the absolute privilege of attending the inaugural @womeninbeer.bsky.social Awards held at Eko Brewery in London It was an outstanding event. To be surrounded by so so many legends in the beer world was absolutely incredible.