Books for Brewers: Bees and Honey
Bees and honey are amazing. They are little honey-producing machines, and honey is an astonishing substance used in quite a variety of functions, from feeding an entire colony of larvae [..]
Month: June 2012
Books for Brewers: Basic List of Books of Modern How-To on Beer and Mead
This is my collection of books of modern how-to on beer and mead – all the books I currently have in my library plus a few. There are even a [..]
Books for Brewers: Historical Brewing Secondary Sources
Most recently updated Aug. 18. 2015 Here is my list of historical brewing secondary sources; the references I reach for regularly. I’ve already posted my personal list of primary sources [..]
Books for Brewers: Historical Primary Sources for Brewers
Most recently updated October 21, 2017 I am chagrined each time I see someone online asking whether there are period sources. You bet there are! Here is a running list of [..]
Cherry Pyment
This has taken two silver medals so far this season (Merrimack valley Homebrew Competition and Meadlennium in Florida) and just helped me win the coveted title at the SCA event known as the Baronial [..]
Blood Orange Cordial
This year I made a modern Blood Orange Cordial. Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? I made it for historic competitions. Blood oranges, C. sinensis, were first discovered and cultivated in 15th century Sicily (the region [..]
Medieval Brewing Smackdown and why it was fun
We had the culmination of a brewing smackdown last weekend. It all started like this In the world of medieval enactors in the Society for Creative Anachronism, an integral part [..]