Curling up with a mug of steaming mulled cider is a lovely thing this chilly, dank time of year, but I beg you, don’t get those silly, frilly, expensive  little kits to make your cider with.  Making showstopping spiced cider is stupid easy and much less expensive than getting a [...]

I’ve been preparing my list of historical brewing sources.   I am chagrined each time I see a post from a newbie on one of the brewing history forums, asking whether there are period sources.  You bet there are!  Clearly my eleven-page bibliography needs to become a searchable database available from [...]

This is from an email trail discussing rhodamels (rose meads), rose syrups, and things to make from rose petals, such as rosaries.  Froniga also combined the petals of red damask roses and purified honey with alcohol to make melrosette, another healing potion which is not fermented. Rhodomel is simply another [...]