This is a list for Brewers throughout the SCA to discuss issues, events, competitions, brewing and anything else of interest. Discussion on this list is intended to focus on issues of interest specific to SCA Brewers of all types of beverages. All SCA brewers are strongly encouraged to subscribe and help better our craft.
Although other forums exist for the discussion of general brewing issues, (such as the HBD, www.hbd.org), this type of discussion is more then welcome at this list where the signal to noise ratio will be better and there are plenty of experienced SCA brewers to answer your questions, just another perk of living in the current middle ages.
General historic beverage discussion that is not SCA specific is available through the historic brewers list (www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html).
I believe the Demigoddess Ale is of Viking origin. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the recipe, but I know someone who makes it on a regular basis. I
Does anyone know of any actual documented Viking beer recipes? I don't think I do. I'd go Eadric's route, resulting in a beer something like what we know
They drank beers made from malted barley. Beer was one of the "grave goods" often left with the dead. What we would call "beer" they would have probably
Hello all, I was just ask by a friend if I could brew a 'Viking Beer' (and specifically not Mead) I was wondering if anyone has suggestion or pointer to a name