The 8,000 Year History Of Wine Transport And Storage
Read the 8,000 year history of how we store and transport wine around the world. Learn about clay amphora in Ancient Greece & Egypt, the happy accidental adoption of the oak barrel by the Romans, and the 6,000 gallon plastic bags of wine we move around the world's oceans!
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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…
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. Coming home to that smell is a joy. When it's bottled, the color is very dark, like a porter, but with incredible clarity. The flavor is…
In our world, heather ale (or Fraoch, the gaelic word for “heather”) was enjoyed by the ancient Picts in what is now Scotland. With various conquests and later laws, the original recipe…
Thoughts: I was delighted to find this recipe, which dates back to 1717, in The Accomplished Housekeeper. I made a batch, and after a few months was terribly disappointed to find it harsh and not a…
“Trub” is the name for that yeasty sludge left in the bottom of a carboy after the beer has been racked out. With many beers, the trub will absorb the bitterness from the hops, leaving …
“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 th…
Thoughts: This is a rustic, cottage sort of a pudding, but the whiskey whipped cream elevates it up and beyond ordinary tastiness. The spent grains from the apple beer give the pudding some husky b…
“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 tempe…
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 …
