More ancient recipes, gruits, etc

[unionrdr]

I've been busy re-saving all my programs, links, etc after the hard drive software had some problems with playing nice together. So, while looking up my old links to save, I decided to save & post all the cool old, colorful recipes I found on the page with the Mumme I'm about done fermenting now. From Mumme to Jihau, to a Neolithic Scot's heather ale. I hop you find them as fascinating as I did!...
Mumme-https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/medieval-mumm-recipe1.jpg
Scot's Heather ale-https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/highland-heather-ale-recipe1.jpg
Wisconsin Weizen- https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/wisconsin-weizen-recipe.jpg
Belgian Gruit ale- https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/gruit-ale-recipe.jpg
Colonial porter- https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/colonial-porter-recipe.jpg
Gratzer smoked wheat- https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/gratzer-ale-recipe.jpg
Henan Ancient ale- https://distantmirror.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/henan-anient-ale-recipe2.jpg

 

[unionrdr]

And here are the main pages with historical info, tips, etc...
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/ale-through-the-ages-brewing-the-oldest-known-fermented-beverage-in-the-world/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/ale-through-the-ages-gratzer-smoked-wheat-ale/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/ale-through-the-ages-colonial-porter/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/ale-through-the-ages-belgian-gruit-ale/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/ale-through-the-ages-wisconsin-weizen-ale/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/brewing-a-5000-year-old-scottish-ale/
https://distantmirror.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/brewing-a-medieval-mumm-ale/
*** I thought to list these links in this forum, rather than Recipes & Ingredients, since they'd get more exposure here?!...

 

[dmtaylor]

I brewed this beer many years back. I didn't like it, but some people did. Tasted to me like sour fruity bacon, that's the best way I can describe it. No yeast was pitched, it was all naturally wild fermented. It scored well in competition (beat Schlosser's Old Ale).

http://byo.com/body/item/2099-really-old-style-ancient-sumerian-beer
http://knaves.org/DMC/victor/VICTORS2008.htm

 

[unionrdr]

Always cool to place well in a competition! I might try that recipe someday when I can dedicate equipment to sours &/or wild fermentations...

 

[Devon]

That colonial porter recipe looks good, I'll add that to the 'to brew' list. Thanks!

 

[Sourz4life]

I did that recent article on Gruit so this kind of stuff always interests me. I was actually talking to one of the Penobscot native Americans up here and Maine and he was telling me they have a old recipe that they used Chaga and wood mushrooms in. Ended up as a really earthy beer but in a good way according to him. I'm tweaking it a bit and going to use Truffles since my local wine shop got some black truffles in recently and they aren't badly priced. I will be using Chaga as I already have it but once I come up with the recipe I'll post it. Using a wild Maine captured yeast as well.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah, I'm starting to like this gruit stuff myself as of this year. Going to do a couple, then back to old American beers for my book.

 

[jwalk4]

Keep it up! Good luck on the book!

 

[unionrdr]

Thanks. The business end of self-publishing is tough, especially if you don't know much about it?! One thing I don't like about Kindle Reports is, it doesn't tell you what book sold in what country. Just the prices of what sold in a given country.
The colonial porter & a couple other historic American-style beers may likely see my PM/PB BIAB versions in the book to represent different beers/historical highlights of brewing in this country. Some version of my Snowbound Porter will be included in this 2nd HB book, as will a newer version of my Queen Anne's Revenge Whiskely Stout, my hopped & confused hybrid lager, &?...
I'm also going to plug these recipes into BS2 & get some numbers, maybe see if I can convert them to my style of PM.