In this episode we’ll talk with Megan Giller, a chocolate writer and educator. Megan will tell the story of women in 17th and 18th century Mexico and other Central American countries who were accused of using chocolate in their witchcraft. Grab yourself some tasty bean to bar chocolate and follow along for this spellbinding tale.

Connections have been drawn between Medieval female brewers and our modern day image of witches, from pointy hats to cauldrons, and black cats to broom sticks. The story gets passed around that modern iconography of witches comes from these Medieval alewives. But is there any truth to these stories? Beer historian Dr. Christina Wade has the answers.