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A 1,000 year old brewery was found in the Mountains where the Inca used to live:

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http://news1.iwon.com/odd/article/id/129500|oddlyenough|07-30-2004::10:08|reuters.html


It mentions a drink called Chicha which was originally made from a pepper plant but now made with corn. If anyone is interested in the recipe(s) to try something period but not Europian:


http://xb-70.com/beer/chicha/ch_recip.htm

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A Homebrewer's Night Before Christmas


'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Every creature was thirsty, including the mouse...
The steins were empty, and the bottles were too
The beer had been drunk with no time to brew.

My family was nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of Christmas Ale foamed in their heads.
Mama in her kerchief lamented the drought,
She craved a pilsner and I, a stout.

When out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter.
Away to the kitchen, I flew like a flash,
Opening the door with a loud bang and crash!

I threw on the switch and the lights, all aglow,
Gave a luster of mid-day to the brew-pot below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear
But Gambrinus himself, the patron of beer.

With a look in his eye, so lively and quick,
He said, "You want beer? Well, here, take your pick."
More rapid than eagles, his recipes came
As he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

"Now, Pilsener! Now, Porter! Now, Stout and Now Maerzen!
On, Bitter! On, Lager! On, Bock and On Weizen!"
"To the top of the bottles, the short and the tall,
Now brew away, brew away, and fill them all!"

As dried hops before a wild hurricane fly,
And then, without warning, settle down with a sigh,
So towards the brew-pot, the ingredients flew,
Malt extract, roasted barley and crystal malt, too.

And then in a twinkling, I heard it quite plain,
The cracking open of each barley grain.
As I drew in my head and was turning around,
Into the kitchen, he came with a bound.

He was dressed like a knight, from his head to his toes,
With an old family crest adorning his clothes.
A bundle of hops, he had flung on his back,
And the brewing began when he opened his pack.

His hops were so fragrant! His barley, how sweet!
The adjuncts included Munich malt and some wheat.
The malted barley was mashed in the tun,
Then boiled with hops in the brew-pot 'till done.

Excitement had me gnashing my teeth,
As the sweet smell encircled my head like a wreath.
Beer yeast was pitched, both lager and ale,
The wort quickly fermented, not once did it fail.

It was then krausened, or with sugar primed,
And just being bottled when midnight had chimed.
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know, I'd be shortly in bed.

He spoke not a word but kept on with his work,
And capped all the bottles, then turned with a jerk.
And laying a finger alongside his nose,
He belched (quite a burp!) before he arose.

Clean-up was easy, with only a whistle,
And away the mess flew, like the down on a thistle.
And I heard him exclaim, 'ere he left me the beer,
"Merry Christmas to all! and a HOPPY New Year!"


Merry Christmas everyone!!
And Happy New Year!!

Paul
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The Budweisser Bush, previously thought to have been extinct has been found thriving in urban areas across the united states.

http://www.plsthx.com/all_pictures/108_p.html
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Monks run out of the world's best beer
Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:44 PM ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Monks at a Belgian abbey have been forced to stop
selling their famous beer after it was voted the best in the world and was
promptly sold out.
The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western Belgium is home to some
30 Cistercian and Trappist monks who lead a life of seclusion, prayer,
manual labor -- and beer-brewing.
A survey of thousands of beer enthusiasts from 65 countries on the RateBeer
Web site (www.ratebeer.com) in June rated the Westvleteren 12 beer as the
world's best.
But the abbey only has a limited brewing capacity, and was not able to cope
with the beer's sudden popularity.
"Our shop is closed because all our beer has been sold out," said a message
on the abbey's answering machine, which it calls the "beer phone."
And the abbey has no intention of boosting its capacity to satisfy market
demand.
"We are not brewers, we are monks. We brew beer to be able to afford being
monks," the father abbot said on the abbey's Web site.
Monk Mark Bode told De Morgen daily: "Outsiders don't understand why we are
not raising production. But for us life in the abbey comes first, not the
brewery."


© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
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[Kythe]

Mattyd, I think this magazine had you in mind:

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/index.html

Mattyd is head of the Drunkard's Guilde of Stonemarche
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Yeah baby!!





D. Sebastian
Imbibus Maximus, Drunkard's Guilde of Stonemarche

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SCA Demo .com
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Well, atleast that's what Sobieski Vodka claims:

http://www.vodkasobieski.com/index.php
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4 Craft brewers are putting together a restaurant on top of a building in NYC. It's called "Eataly's"

http://www.dogfish.com/community/news/press-releases/dogfish-collaborates-with-3-brewers-batali-bastianich-on-nyc-brewpub.htm
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Legend has it that the first 'aszú', or 'dried' grape wine, was made in Hungary's Tokaj-Hegyalja region by Laczkó Máté Szepsi in 1630, though records suggest the style already existed almost 60 years earlier. The first region to fully explore the usefulness of 'noble rot', or botrytis cinerea, in making sweet wine, Tokaji wines (meaning 'from Tokaj') were sought after by royalty. Their extraordinary ability to age gracefully sparked rumors of magical healing properties, and the famous style came to be imitated far and wide. In many regions, rich or aromatic white wines were named after these Hungarian beauties in the sincerest form of flattery, like 'Tokay d'Alsace' and 'Tocai Friulano'.
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The 200 year old Bottles of Champagne and Beer were found at the mouth of the Baltic near a Finnish Island:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/03/baltic.sea.beer/index.html
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