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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 10h

In Voss the kjenge is not a museum piece

A bearded man is drinking from a big wooden beer bowl with horse head handles that’s brimming with foaming beer

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 13h

Getting the brewers set up. This is the owner of kveik #18, who always serves his beers from an orange plastic can

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 14h

Friday morning in Hornindal. Quiet before the storm.

A green field with a barn and some oldish wooden houses, and behind them forest receding up the mountainside to be lost in mist.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having a tiny warm-up before the @kornolfest.bsky.social preparty. A visitor from Voss brought this kjenge, made for him by his grandpa for his 20th birthday

A wooden beer bowl with horse head handles and carved swirling patterns is standing on a table with a plastic tablecloth

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J Mark Dodds FRSA @jmarkdodds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you beer you must buy this book

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very autumnal in the mountains now. The leaves all yellow, and the heather red. Forecast for tomorrow morning is 2C. Lovely.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new book arrived today! Only read a few bits, but looks excellent so far. @larsga.bsky.social

The book cover of "The Power of Beer" by Lars Marius Garshol. It shows a beer glass with amber beer on a throne, with a doorway and red curtains in the background.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Second batch going off to the post office.

A stack of broad, flat packages sitting on a floor. Roughly 15.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Didn't take long for the vultures to arrive. There's clearly a big industry out there that preys on authors. And I can see why, because an author with a new book is very, very emotionally ready to accept help with marketing. What I love about this one is the book doesn't even exist.

Screenshot of an email reading:

"Dear Lars,

What caught my attention about Traditional Norwegian Beer Brewing is the way it preserves the history of a brewing tradition through both careful research and the stories of the communities that have kept these practices alive. I was especially intrigued by the attention to farmhouse brewing, kveik yeast, local techniques, and the connection between brewing methods and regional culture.

I’m part of World Reading in München, Germany. We discover authors and books from around the world, giving preference to voices that are rarely heard. Our discussions often explore cultural traditions, local history, food and drink, craftsmanship, and the ways books can preserve knowledge that might otherwise be overlooked.

For our September 30 gathering, I’d love to feature Traditional Norwegian Beer Brewing as an Author Spotlight. I think it could lead to an engaging discussion about Norwegian farmhouse brewing, kveik, traditional craftsmanship, regional communities, and how brewing practices can reveal something about the history and culture of a place.

If you'd like, we can simply introduce your book to the group, or you could share a short message with our readers or join us briefly for an informal conversation. There is no pressure to participate beyond whatever feels comfortable for you.

Would you be interested in having Traditional Norwegian Beer Brewing featured at our September 30 book club gathering?

Warm regards,

World Reading
München, Germany"

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The books have finally arrived! They've been available from online stores for a while, but now I *finally* have my own copies. After years of being in progress, it finally feels like this book is published. Next up: start signing and mailing copies.

Photo of a stack of books titled "The Power of Beer", next to an opened cardboard box with DHL tape on it. The stack and box are on a table, and next to them are a pair of scissors.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The White House has posted the US-Denmark agreement about Greenland, and I had a quick read-through. Basically the US gets nothing they didn't already have. So they created years of noise, and drove Eur. allies away in order to get ... nothing at all. Jaw-dropping incompetence. My summary of text:

Screenshot of text reading: "There's basically nothing in it until you get to IV. Defense Areas, where:

1. The US already had this
2. The US already had this
3. The US already had this
4. The US promises to use Greenlandic contractors where possible
V. The US already had this

VI. Has three subpoints all numbered ".i", all of which state rights the US already had

VII. The US is allowed to raise concerns about the security of Greenland, and if it does Denmark will discuss those with the US

VIII. Just words

IX. Non-NATO members not allowed military presense on Greenland

X. Restrictions on what states that are not NATO or EU members can do on Greenland

XI. Agreement has no end date"

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! www.garshol.priv.no/download/pow...

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The Power of Beer

Personal site of Lars Marius Garshol.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re doing a little event in Oslo to promote @kornolfest.bsky.social. Kjetil Dale brewing vossaøl in a backyard.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New experience for me today: I sent an official response to a government hearing on a new law. Gov’t has proposed that breweries be allowed to sell beer directly from the brewery. (Today it has to go via the wine monopoly.) This is potentially fantastic for farmhouse brewers, who can suddenly …

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Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists (JASBC) @jbrewingchemists.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Norse farmhouse 🏘️ yeast meets French Saison 🍺. Kveik x Saison yeast hybrids fermented fast at 37 C, consumed maltotriose, and flocculated better than their Saison parents! Kveik-ing ahead of the pack. 😂 Read this OPEN-ACCESS article today! doi.org/10.1080/0361...

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Using Kveik to Breed Novel Interclade Brewing Hybrids with Improved Tolerances to Industrial Fermentation Stresses

Addressing challenges within the brewing industry calls for the development of novel brewing yeasts to improve production efficiency, sustainability and product diversification. Traditional Norwegi...

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

About to participate in a panel debate about Norwegian beer ingredients at a big food festival in Oslo. Here’s the entrance to the “drinks tent”, where a Norwegian farm food organization wants to show off Norwegian drinks. And their symbol? A yeast ring.

Photo of a huge poster on a party tent wall, showing two hands holding a yeast ring. (Yeah, probably AI.)

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Norsk Kornølfestival @kornolfest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The video of last year's talk by @larsga.bsky.social on "Did people once drink beer every day?" is now up. The talk is about whether it's true that people used to drink beer against thirst every day in the past. The answer contains some rather surprising facts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0MG...

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Lars Marius Garshol "Did people drink beer every day?"

YouTube video by Huldrevatn

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, sure ... totally. That would definitely be enough to produce lots of top-quality porter. Apparently this story is an attempt to explain the name of Barley Lake, in southwest Ireland, near Glengarriff.

Screenshot of old newspaper text reading "The legend of the name 'Barley Lake' is that a local sportsman in bygone days, deploring the deterioration of the Irish porter, emptied a shipload of barley into the lake, and lay down at the end where the Oowenacahina flows out, taking sups to sample the brew. The Cahina has therefore another name, meaning 'Froth off the Barley'"

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My scientific article on spice in farmhouse ale, which I first submitted on November 17 2025 is now accepted. Phew! That was quite the marathon. Particularly considering I started collecting data in 2014...

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Guess it might be time to reboot the laptop soon.

Screenshot of a terminal window where the "uptime" command has been run, showing the computer has been running for 365 days and 49 minutes.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The position of London and Paris in the list of largest cities by population in Europe north of the Alps. Value = 1 means being biggest city.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every time we eat Georgian I try to learn the name of one more dish. This time ningvziani badrijani: eggplant rolls with a walnut and garlic paste inside. Lovely. Photo stolen from Wikipedia as I forgot to take pictures.

A bunch of eggplant rolls with unidentifiable contents. Pomegranate seeds are sprinkled on the plate (as is traditional).

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For a scientific paper on the use of herbs in farmhouse ale the editors are making me look up the vernacular names used in the sources in national botanical databases to make sure the names are interpreted correctly. With 1074 sources in 11 languages that takes a *little* bit of work.

A screenshot of a spreadsheet, showing rows 250-280. First column: code identifying source. Second column: country. Third: language. Fourth: internal herb codes. Fifth: vernacular names in the source, in this case in Estonian. Sixth: status. Seventh: comments.

Names like porss, sookail, tubakas, köömen, and kaelusid occur. Apparently "kaelusid" couldn't be identified, but it doesn't matter because it's under "Others", anyway. And one mistake in translation was identified.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Beer for the afterlife! An #Egyptian figurine of a servant with a basket full of #beer jars. Figurine of servants were deposited in tombs to ensure that the deceased would enjoy the products and services represented. Beer was a dietary staple in #Egypt, so it’s not surprising to ...🧵1/2 📷 me

A small painted figurine of a bent‑over servant placing several rounded beer jars into a woven basket, standing on an oblong base against a dark museum display background.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've always wondered why warm-fermented beer was called "top-fermented" while lager beer (cold-fermented) was called "bottom-fermented". Neither fermentation happens at the top or the bottom, so the terminology makes absolutely zero sense. I was today years old when I finally figured it out. 🧵

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today’s hike at the cabin. When we came here yesterday the area was pretty dry. Today, not so much. Yes, that is the path.

Gray skies and trees, and puddle in the grass, straight and many meters long. The path is basically submerged

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This fellow, I'm told, is the Aztec god of fermentation, Patecatl. He discovered the fermentation starter for pulque (made of fermented agave sap).

Bizarre drawing in Aztec style of a figure with elaborate headdress and something mounted on his nose, as well as a ... throne? behind him. All brightly coloured and drawn in an unusual style.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Went for a walk to clear my head. Rælingen isn’t the worst place to live.

A gravel road just visible on the right. Left of it grass, and a little boardwalk sticking out into a river under partly cloudy skies. Forest in the distance.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That feeling when you've been agonizing for weeks over how to rewrite a chapter. Plan one outline, discard it, then agonize some more. Then, when you have an opening of two days, you sit down to plan a third outline, start typing, and find you have a completed draft well before lunch.

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Martin Andersson @martinhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!? www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

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Doktorand i agrarhistoria | slu.se

Vetenskap och utbildning för hållbart liv.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If anyone wants a talk on beer I'll be in England in November. Saturday 14th in Manchester or London or somewhere in between. Sunday 15th in London. If you're interested get in touch.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Even in Pages images jump around relative to the text every time I edit something. Anyway, finally got everything done, exported to Word. Added line numbering, then realized I needed to do double line spacing, too. OK, open in Pages, change line spacing. Now everything moves again, of course...

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Finishing up a paper for a journal that requires the text to be line numbered. I don't have MS Word, and Apple Pages does not support line numbering. So, what to do? Open the .docx in Emacs, insert <w:lnNumType w:countBy="1" w:start="0" w:restart="continuous"/> in the right place, save. All done.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Was suddenly reminded of my dictionary of Finnish drinking words. Still think it's one of my best blog posts. www.garshol.priv.no/blog/413.html

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A small dictionary of Finnish drinking words | Larsblog

Personal blog of Lars Marius Garshol.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Was sitting on the porch outside the cabin, relaxing after a run, when suddenly a hare ran past in the grass. Ten minutes later it ran past one more time. Then sat nibbling on the grass for a good long while.

A wooden porch with a wire fence, beyond it grass and trees. In the center of the photo, quite small, the dark shape of a jumping hare with tall ears.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Currently 11C up here in the mountains. Forecast is 4C tomorrow morning. We’re very lucky to be able to escape the heat like this

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our cabin is in the middle of a grazing area for sheep and cows, so we get them right up against the wall sometimes. The lambs are very curious, sniff and nibble at everything. Blue plastic over drying firewood, green tarpaulin, metal hinges, wood cover over gas pipe, ... Really everything.

A chair is on a porch with a fence around it. Right next to the porch, maybe 20cm off, is a ewe with her two lambs. Beyond them lots of grass, and forest in the background.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Did a hike from the cabin today, trying a trail we haven't done before, leading to a hill we sometimes ski to (well, past, really). Initially, the path was easy to see, and clearly marked with blue wooden tags.

A path through the heather in a forest. On a tree next to the path a small blue tag is hanging.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Porter famously evolved out of "three threads", a strong brown beer that was mixed with weaker beer to reduce taxes. Well, Belgium before that had drijdraad (three threads), a strong brown beer mixed with weaker beer. That's fascinating. lostbeers.com/drijdraad-a-...

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Drijdraad: a lost strong brown beer (and sometimes weak coffee)

Drijdraad was 'the best variety of Mechelen brown beer.' And in the Land of Waas it means: strong beer, also bland coffee.' Okay, tell me more?

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Such a pleasure to see Argentina not just lose, but be totally outplayed. 120 minutes of World Cup final and only *two* attempts at finishing? Extremely embarrassing. Behaving like total cavemen? Also terribly embarrassing. Good riddance. Shame we had to wait so long for it.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Lovely piece by @larsga on traditional smoky ale and beer. They use wood fires to dry the malt. This is how pre industrial ales could have tasted. Worth reading. They use hops and I specially like the description of the cows eagerness to eat the spent grain. Even when its smoky and mixed with hops.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thinking about the poor Collaconcho (tired stone). It had been carved and was being transported toward the castle the Inca were building when it tired of the journey. So badly it started crying tears of blood. The Inca left it in that spot, and venerated it.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Going to bed when the sky looks like this verges on a crime, but I have no choice. There’s work to do tomorrow

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Scene outside the royal palace in Oslo right now. People are celebrating, because in the end this is a huge win for Norwegian soccer.

Huge crowd of people in the dark, with Norwegian flags, and a chyron reading "People's party even though Norway lost". Hard to translate "Folkefest". Means something like the people coming out as one and partying.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yeah, we lost. But we made it to the quarter finals for the first time ever, then played an absolutely even game with one of the top four teams on the planet. We've had a little bit of luck earlier. Today we had no luck. Fantastic game by the Norwegian team. Absolutely no shame in this.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you want to rent a big screen in Norway right now, for example to show the world cup games, you're out of luck. There aren't any screens left. One municipality had a screen shipped in from Denmark, since they couldn't find any in Norway. www.nrk.no/buskerud/tom...

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Tomt for storskjermer: – Helt vilt

På lørdag skal våre beste menn danse samba med tre løver fra England. Men å vise bruduljen på storskjerm kan bli vanskelig hvis man er bakpå med planleggingen.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Went to the shop to buy printer ink this morning, and they seem to be excited about something. Now it’s 1230 Monday, and I’m hearing fireworks.

Point of sale decorated with a big Norwegian flag, plus a bunch of little ones.

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