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Witch Craft Beer

We lead this week with a very interesting story about witchcraft and women in brewing published by The Conversation. For centuries, brewing was an important household task primarily undertaken by women. Much of the iconography associated with witchcraft has been attributed to female brewers and the smear campaigns of the day that followed. The bubbling cauldron, the pointy hat (worn to be noticed in bustling markets), the cats for keeping mice out of the grain...