Medieval Brewing Recipes: Find the Sources
It’s amazing to me how many brewers ask me where to find medieval brewing recipes for beer, mead, whatever . Let’s start with some basics. When you’re looking for documentable [..]
Tag: mead
Bochet Mead (Ever Try Caramelized Honey?)
Of all the brewing recipe possibilities, bochet made me nervous. I am a cold-method meadmaker. I heat water as little as possible to mix with the must, and heat the [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (Part II, mostly Beer)
In my last two posts: the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. British beer blogger Martyn Cornell takes a crack at sorting out the word [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (part I, mostly Ale)
As I started to say in my last post, the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. It may be that we’ve been telling the wrong story [..]
Taliesin on Mead
The Book of Taliesin is a late Middle Welsh version of the ales of Gwion Bach and Taliesin, mostly around the court of Maelgyn Gynedd. It was written in the 1550s, the same [..]
Can you answer this riddle?
Can you answer this riddle? I am man’s treasure, taken from the woods, Cliff-sides, hill-slopes, valleys, downs; By day wings bear me in the buzzing air, Slip me under a [..]
Brewers’ Roundtable at this weekend’s event
For you medievalists who might be able to actually attend, and all you crazy brewers who like getting together with other brewers to see what’s shakin’, may I recommend this [..]
Medieval Summer Camp and thinking about beer
I’m back home from medieval summer camp (where I and ten thousand of my closest friends re-create camps and life in different eras prior to 1600 AD, complete with battles, [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
Why compete in homebrewing: beer, wine, mead?
Last year a brewing chum asked me why I compete in homebrewing. He’s one of the most morose people I’ve ever met, so my first thought was that he was [..]