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: SCA
How I got started in homebrewing
January 2012- my nephew tells me there’s not enough personal in this story, that it would be more interesting if I let you all see a little more of me [..]
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, [..]
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 [..]
Is making a cordial really brewing?
Making cordials is often lumped in with brewing. Should it be? Is making a cordial, with modern restrictions and requirements, really a brewing activity? Why do people make cordials, anyway? [..]
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 [..]