Fwd: Re: hist-brewing: Historical "non-sanitization"--any experience?

[Beth Ann Snead]

 Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 07:34:02 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Beth Ann Snead <ladypeyton at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: hist-brewing: Historical "non-sanitization"--any
 experience?
 To: bjm10 at cornell.edu
 
 Arnald of Villanova explains how to sanitize a barrel in Boke of wine
 published in the 14th Century.  His method includes burning ncense into
 the barrel.  Since the modern way to sanitize a barrel is to burn sulfur
 strips one has to wonder EXACTLY what Arnald's contemporaries were
 including in their incense.
 
 Beth Ann Snead
 Lettice Lady Peyton in the SCA 
 
 --- bjm10 at cornell.edu wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > From a purely theoretical standpoint, I'm wondering.  Has anyone on
 the 
 > list had experience with the cleaning-but-not-sanitizing by modern 
 > standards that may have been done historically?
 > 
 > I would presume that this would have a greater chance of being safe
 due 
 > to the much larger volumes involved in brewing, but I'm only being 
 > theoretical on that point.
 > 
 > Likewise, I've not come across explicit cleaning instructions in the
 > sources I've looked at.  Has anyone come across descriptions or
 > instructions for cleaning in 18th, 17th, 16th, or earlier sources?  I
 > was
 > wondering what their methods and materials were, although I could do
 > some
 > speculation:  Soda ash, lime, lye soap, brushes, scrubbing, water... 

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