He finally had time
to get his brewing equipment organized and is starting his first batch of ale.
Because I am a little nervous about the whole process, we are opting some modern practices like we did with the melomel, that aren't "period"
like a modern airlock and we will be doing a secondary ferment, but I think
most brewers in the SCA do that. I will try to remember to come back to this
with the recipe he used but until then, here are some pictures, but in the meantime these are a couple of the books he's been looking at.
Hornsey, Ian S. A History of Beer and Brewing. RSC Paperbacks. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003.
Hornsey, Ian S. A History of Beer and Brewing. RSC Paperbacks. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003.
Unger, Richard. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
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