[From nobody Mon Jul 18 15:50:45 2011 Return-Path: <owner-calon-brew@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU> Received: from rly-yb02.mx.aol.com (rly-yb02.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.2]) by air-yb05.mail.aol.com (v59.54) with SMTP; Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:07:17 2000 Received: from LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (lime.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.1.41]) by rly-yb02.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:07:11 -0400 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <16.001BF58B@LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 8:05:00 -0400 Received: from CRCVMS.UNL.EDU by CRCVMS.UNL.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 70655 for CALON-BREW@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:08:17 -0600 Received: from x8.boston.juno.com by crcvms.unl.edu (PMDF V5.1-7 #17254) with ESMTP id <01JD2W3TOTD8002D40@crcvms.unl.edu> for calon-brew@listserver; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:56:12 CST Received: (from osrik@juno.com) by x8.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id EEH57HFJ; Fri, 02 Jul 1999 07:54:30 -0400 (EDT) MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Juno 2.0.11 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 8-11,13-16,18-40 X-Juno-Att: 0 Message-ID: <19990702.065526.-507143.0.osrik@juno.com> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:55:23 +0000 Reply-To: Calontir Brewing Discussion <CALON-BREW@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU> Sender: Calontir Brewing Discussion <CALON-BREW@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU> From: Osrik Ironbeard <osrik@JUNO.COM> Subject: Re: Early Medieval Brewing To: CALON-BREW@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU Dear Perplexed the Saxons I'm afraid did not have the complex chemical analysis abilities that we have today words such as amylases and conversion meant nothing to them so what you must decide is am I going to recreate the recipe as it has been recorded from medieval text regardless of outcome or am I just trying to make good modern drinking beer. I have made beer the old fashion way in open fermenters trusting to wild yeast and the outcome has been much different than we are used to calling "good" beer but I do believe that it accurately recreates what was drank 600 years ago. Osrik Ironbeard brewer ,researcher ,drunk On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:43:35 -0400 "P. Burr Loomis" <PBLoomis@AOL.COM> writes: > Does anybody know anything about the Early Medieval Brewing >page at ><< >http://writing.msu.edu/wcpage/2ndlevel/internet/lilly98/research/lister5 .html >>> ?? > > Which one of the multitudinous state universities is msu.edu? >Michigan >State? Montana State? Mogadishu State? They give very little >information >as to what references/sources they used. > > What is the validity of these instructions? They say to boil >the >malt for >two hours. That's going to destroy the amylases early on, wrecking >the >conversion, without giving a particularly efficient extraction to >atone for >it. >Did the Anglo-Saxons really do things that way, or is this an error by >the >reenactors? > > Perplexed, > Scotti ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ]