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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺🎃
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Beer Historian/Archaeologist| Author: FILTHY QUEENS: A HISTORY OF BEER IN IRELAND, and THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES | Cohost @beerladiespod| Pres. @beerladiesIRE | BJCP certified Beer judge

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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.
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
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Currently sitting on the balcony in Puerto de la Cruz listening to live piano music playing Queen whilst drinking Canarian banana wine (which btw is fab). A very nice holiday indeed.
Photo of me, a blonde haired woman in a black dress with a silver necklace and tattoos on her arm and sunglasses on her head, holding a bottle of Canarian Banana Wine. Bottle reads Platé
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This Saturday you can catch me chatting with Susan and Judith Boyle about all things Filthy Queens and Women in Irish Beer History at the Kildare Readers Festival.

Free tickets here: riverbank.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

And of course there will be beer!
Screenshot of Kildare Readers Festival post featuring photos of Christina Wade, Judith Boyle, and Susan Boyle. Includes text stating "Filthy Queens and beer herstory: A conversation with Dr Christina Wade and Susan & Judith Boyle" below reads " When Saturday October 11th 2025; Time: 5:30pm; Where: Riverbank Arts Centre
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Goodbye Norway! Until next time
October 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Getting ready for my talk here at @kornolfest.bsky.social
Copies of my book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland sit on top of a wooden and metal table with a whiteboard in the background
October 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Alright day 3, let's be having ya @kornolfest.bsky.social. really looking forward to this talk from Xavier Tortosa 'Tradition Reimagined: Applying Brewing Heritage in Modern Craft'
Photo of PowerPoint slides with title Tradition Reimagined: Applying Brewing Heritage to Modern Craft. Next to drawings of various Brewing instruments or drinking equipment
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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At @kornolfest.bsky.social drinking some absolutely stunning farmhouse brews
Pull up sign that says Velkomen til Norsk Kornølfestival. Stairs behind Big community centre room with tables and chairs and wooden dividers. In the back homebrewers serve theirs ales Small glass of ale held in a woman's hand. Beer Festival in the background
October 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The juniper infusion for our brew here at @kornolfest.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Brew day at @kornolfest.bsky.social. Using juniper infusion and mashing with a juniper stick, barley malt. Smells amazing... incredible experience
Metal mash tun with blue insulation and juniper mashing stick. Metal mashing tun with man holding juniper mashing stick above in wooden put building Mashing in the barley, image of mashing tun with stick in the middle, stone fireplace in background Juniper infusing in water in black cauldron over fire in stone fireplace in wooden out building.
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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First Beer at @kornolfest.bsky.social
New fresh beer sits on wooden table in candlelight in a wooden house with chairs in the background
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Reminder friends of my free and online talk about my book, 'Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland' on Tuesday, Sept 30th from 5pm as part of Dublin Festival of History. You can join from anywhere in the world! Link to register: dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/filthy...
Screen shot of event page for Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland. Text reads: Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland. September 30 @5:00-6:00. Then picture of book cover with text overlap of date and indicating it takes place online
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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We're here at Electric Picnic! And we brought a gate crasher...👀👀 @ballykilcavan.com
Beer can of Ballykilcavan Gate Crasher IPA held in woman's hand with wrist band that says performer. Photo is in an orange tent
August 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Come see me and the amazing Donal Fallon chat about all things Irish beer and life before the pubs at Electric Picnic this Saturday from noon! Hosted by the brilliant Aoife Carrigy. And if that's not enough of a draw- there's free beer 🍻😊
Screenshot of event announcement of Life Before Pubs? With Donal Fallon and Christina Wade. 30 August 2025. Theatre of Food Drinks Theatre.White writing on purple backdrop. Photo above is of Drinks Theatre
August 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Oasis in Dublin
Croke Park stadium full of people for Oasis gig
August 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Popped into Dubray Books on Henry Street to sign some copies of Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland! If you are a bookshop or brewery in Dublin that has copies of my book and want me to pop around and sign- always happy to stop in!
Photo of three book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, two stacked on top of each other and one leaning upright with the cover facing us. Books are in a circular wooden alcove with a birch background, a white circle encloses it and a blue wall.
June 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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It's time for @beerladiespod.bsky.social recording!! Any guesses what tonight's topic might be 🤩
Photo of the book 'Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland' by Dr Christina Wade. The cover features a beige background and a dans macabre. It is standing up next to a silver van of Rascal's Jailbreak Lager with a plant and book in the background
June 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Enjoying a lovely pint of Blacks of Kinsale Sovereign Island Lager.

Rude not to really.
Photo of a pint of Blacks of Kinsale Lager on a wooden table, outside one very sunny day. In the background are cars and sailing masts
May 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Hello Kinsale, you're looking well 😍🍻
Railing overlooking water with a boat in the background, behind that is Kinsale, Ireland with its buildings on the water
May 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A bit of Kinsale Mead Co's Hazy Summer Mead at Ballymaloe Festival of Food. Perfect for this gorgeous weather 😍 🌞
Photograph of wall with pig painting. A woman's hand holds up glass of red Mead with an orange slice in front.
May 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Panel was fab!! Had such a lovely time- thank you so much to my co-speakers, host John McKenna, and everyone who came out to listen!

And if you are here- I've signed my book copies in the festival shop 🍻🥰
Three piles of the book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, on the front one is an open book signed by me
May 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I should not have watched Final Destination 2 last night...
Truck carrying logs in front of a smaller white truck and Two cars on its right side. License plates covered with emojis
May 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Delighted to be on a wonderful panel about Irish Craft Beer tomorrow at Ballymaloe Festival of Food. Join me from 5pm alongside the fabulous @bibliocook.bsky.social & Mark Cadden of Grand Cru Beers for a fun chat about the amazing indie beer Ireland has to offer w/ a few tastings of course!
Six photographs surround central sage green text which features a logo of a cream spoon, fork, and knife. Text below reads Ballymoe Festival of Food. Proudly supported by Kerrygold. May 16th-18th 2025
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A huge thank you to @samuraigrog.bsky.social in @wonkettemedia.bsky.social for recommending my book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland! I'm incredibly grateful and absolutely delighted!
March 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Day 22 of #31beerherstories is, of course, the amazing St Brigid, who in between exploding eyeballs and stealing everything in sight, was busy making miraculous brews. I've got a chapter 'A Goddess, A Nun, And A Saint Walk Into A Brewery' dedicated to her and other Irish saints in Filthy Queens.
First page of my chapter; A Goddess, A Nun and A Saint Walk Into a Brewery, in Filthy Queens A History of Beer in Ireland.
March 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Lady Sarah Taylor, widow of Alderman Samuel Taylor, took over the entire operations of their brewery upon his death and was listed as the establishment's proprietor in 1783. Taylor was one of many widows who inherited breweries in the 18thc, & ran them quite successfully.

#31beerherstories Day 19
Mostly empty beer glass sits on a wooden table. Some foam remains on the top of the golden coloured beer.
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM