Beverages, Brewing & Vinting

A short annotated bibliography of books and other materials useful for historical brewing. Some of these materials range up into the 1800s.

When the question of cooking for a feast comes up, there are a number of different concerns to be addressed by the potential cook. Am I ready to take on a project this large? Should I go with period recipes, or make food that I'm sure everyone will eat? What do I do about vegetarian s, and our new knight who is allergic to onions, salt and wheat? Can I ask my friends to help me work, and still have them like me the next day? Will I survive this experience with my sanity intact? This article is an attempt to address these concerns, and to help feast cooks everywhere to have better organized, more enjoyable feasts - and feasts that they have fun cooking!

This course is intended to give interested parties an introduction to the various types of period potables.

This is an article from Cariadoc's Miscellany. The Miscellany is Copyright (c) by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook, 1988, 1990, 1992.

The illustrati ons from the Mendel and Landauer Housebooks , indexed by profession and with lists of items found in each illustrati on.

By Forester Nigel FitzMaurice.

Links to a growing number of old culinary & brewing texts that are now available online.

Homebrew Sake is very easy to brew using simple cooking tools and then you can enjoy the taste of Sake.

Homebrew Sake called 'doburoku', rather than hazy Sake', is part of the culture of Japan.

Even under the previously strict control of Liquor Tax law, some Buddist Temples and Shinto Shrines were brewing their own 'doburoku' to serve at their festivals or ceremonies.

The Atlantian Brewers Guild is dedicated to the study of brewing practices within the period of history covered by the SCA. It promotes the production of quality beverages using period recipes, extrapolations of probable recipes, and modern sanitary brewing practices. It is the purpose of the Atlantian Brewers Guild to teach and by teaching raise the quality of potables in the Kingdom.

On the history of brewing and brewers.

An organized set of links related to Medieval and Renaissance brewing.

A growing resource on historical brewing, with original works of research, recipes, essays, and lessons learned.

An ongoing site with articles and links on Brewing as it applies to the Middle Ages and the SCA.

A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century.

New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Photocopied pages from the microfilm of the second (1671) edition of The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt Opened: Whereby is Discovered Several ways for making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c.

The full text published on Project Gutenberg.