
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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? 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 [..]
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 [..]
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, [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]