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Medieval Brewing: the Alcohol They Really Drank Medieval Brewing: the Alcohol They Mӧdu (Estonia) Morat (blackberries or mulberries) Really Drank Mulsum (technically not a true mead; strong Summer University, Session 91 wine with honey added) Mistress Sorcha Crowe Myod (Russian) Mka Elspeth Payne Omphacomel (verjuice) [email protected] Oxymel (wine vinegar) 240-285-0632 Półtorak (Poland) Quick mead BEVERAGES Rhodamel(i) (roses) Sack (very sweet) Wine (assumed grape) Sima (Finland) pyment Trójniak (Poland) ‘Country’ wine (other fruit) White mead Beer vs. Ale Braggot SOURCES Mulled ale Butterbeer Atlantia and SCA Websites and Lists on brewing Gruit Atlantia Brewers Guild: brewers.atlantia.sca.org Scandinavian beers Atlantia brewers Yahoo group: Estonia: Sahti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Atlantia_Brewers/ Estonia: Koduõlu (home beer) SCA brewers list: Lithuania: Kaimiskas alus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sca_brew/ Lithuania: Interkingdom Brewers Guild: šviesus/tamsus/juodas/fitruotas/nefitruotas http://www.greydragon.org/ikbg/ Norway: maltøl, bayer, juleøl, bokkøl (bockbier), Guide to other kingdom guilds: pilsner (Plzeň) http://brewers.atlantia.sca.org/category/resources/oth Sweden: lättӧl, stankӧl, folkӧl (by strength) er-kingdom-guilds-baronial-guilds-and-the-mighty- Cider interkingdom-brewers-guild/ Cyser Everyone’s first secondary source: A Sip Through Time, Pery or perry by Cindy Renfrow, 1997. Hypocras Society Publications Cordials Coming soon, in Tournaments Illuminated Issue Honey jack #195, Third Quarter 2015: Book review on Quinte Apple jack Essence, or Man’s Heaven Kvass (period??) Brewing Medieval Beer Tournaments Illuminated, Mead Issue #194, Second Quarter 2015, by Brian Acerglyn (maple) Burnham Black mead (currants) Casks Kegs, and Other Brewing Measurements in Bochet Medieval England Compleat Anachronist #164, Bochetomel (bochet with fruit) Second Quarter 2014 Chouchenn (Brittany) Intoxicating Beverages in the Middle East Czwórniak (Poland) Compleat Anachronist #157, Third Quarter 2012 Dwójniak (Poland) Origins of Mead Compleat Anachronist #141, Gverc (Croatia) Fourth Quarter 2008 Hydromel Making Medieval Mead or, Mead Before Digby Compleat Anachronist #120, Summer 2003, by Medica (Slovenia) Cynthia Krupp and Bill Gillen Medovina (Croatia) Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages Compleat Medovukha (East Slavic) Anachronist #60, March 1992, by Marc Shapiro Melomel (fruit) Metheglin (herbs and spices) Midus (Lithuania) The CA Guide to Brewing Compleat Anachronist #5, March 1983, by Lady Arwen Evaine fert Rhys ap Gwynedd “Anglica Brewtannica Vol.2: “Carboy to Kegging” Tournaments Illuminated #183, Third Quarter 2012 “Anglica Brewtannica Vol 1: Strike to Carboy” Tournaments Illuminated #182, Second Quarter 2012 “Cordially Yours: Researching and Making Cordials” Tournaments Illuminated #179, Third Quarter 2011 “Things That Go Boom in the Night” Tournaments Illuminated #175, Third Quarter 2010 “An Arab Mead”, by Bruce R. Gordon Tournaments Illuminated #140, Fall 2001 For an index of issues, visit http://www.sca.org/ca/issues.html or http://www.sca.org/ti/issues.html . Shameless self-promotion: Useful bibliographies on my website, Beauty In Beer http://www.beautyinbeer.net search on “Books for Brewers” Primary Sources: http://www.elspethpayne.com/2012/06/21/historical- primary-sources-for-brewers/ Secondary Sources: http://www.elspethpayne.com/2012/06/21/historical- brewing-secondary-sources/ Modern Books on brewing: http://www.elspethpayne.com/2012/06/21/books-for- brewers-books-of-modern-how-to-on-beer-and-mead/ Books on bees and honey: http://www.elspethpayne.com/2012/06/21/books-for- brewers-bees-and-honey/ Facebook groups Medieval Brewing Several groups in Atlantia, and various Kingdom Guilds are on FB – for list see: http://brewers.atlantia.sca.org/category/resources/oth er-kingdom-guilds-baronial-guilds-and-the-mighty- interkingdom-brewers-guild/ Plenty of others… .
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