Yorkshire Oat Ale
Yorkshire Oat Ale Thoughts: When I saw this for the first time, I thought that something got lost in this recipe’s time travel. The malted oats are cold mashed, which is very unusual in brewing....
View ArticleCounterfeit Malvoisie
“Daenerys held out her cup for Irri to refill. The wine was sweet and strong, redolent with the smell of eastern spices, much superior to the thin Ghiscari wines that had filled her cup of late.” -A...
View ArticleElvish White Mead
Now Galadriel rose from the grass, and taking a cup from one of her maidens she filled it with white mead and gave it to Celeborn. “Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell,” she said. “Drink...
View ArticleDigby’s Spiced Apple Cider
Thoughts: This recipe is loosely based on a direct recipe from Digby. In what I now believe was a misreading of the original, I decided to try what I thought was a spiced cider. The fact that there...
View ArticleBochet – Burnt Honey Mead, 1393
boiling honey for Bochet Thoughts: The smell of this mead in progress is awesome. The whole house smells of toffee and burnt sugar, and, inexplicably, brownies, and the delicious aroma lasts for days....
View ArticleBeer, c. 1577
“Having therefore groond eight bushels of good malt upon our querne, where the toll is saved, she addeth unto it half a bushel of wheat meale, and so much of otes small groond, and so tempereth or...
View ArticleBirch Wine
Thoughts: Last spring, I caused a near scandal in our small town when I tapped the birch tree in front of our new house. The locals scoffed, thinking I couldn’t tell the difference between a maple and...
View ArticleHippocras of Cider, 1676
“You may make Hippocras of Cider thus: take of cardamoms, carpobalsamum, of each half an ounce, coriander seeds, nutmegs, ginger, of each two ounces, cloves two drachmes, bruise and infuse them two...
View ArticleHippocras Cider Pancakes
I always like to try and use whatever is left from brewing in a cooking recipe of some sort, and this one is great! It made fruity, flavorful little pancakes just begging to be doused in maple syrup....
View ArticleUsquebath, 1655
Thoughts: Aqua Vitae is first mentioned in the Irish annals in 1405, when a chieftain apparently died of over-drinking the stuff. By the time of Henry VIII, it had moved from a wine-based distillation...
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