HERB - Old Herbals and Corks.

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Glass was invented by the Romans.  Stained glass was available throughout
period.  The key to this, however, is that it was very expensive, but glass
bottles, window glass, and stained glass are to be found throughout period.  

1615 observations on bottling ale and corking the bottles.

Touching the brewing of bottle ale, it differeth nothing at all from the
brewing of strong ale, only it must be drawn in a larger proportion, as at
least twenty gallons of half a quarter; and when it comes to be changed you
shall blink it (as was before showed) more by much than was the strong ale,
for
it must be pretty and sharp, which giveth the life and quickness to the ale:
and when you tun it, you shall put it into round bottles with narrow mouths,
and then stopping them close with cork set them in a cold cellar up to the
waist in sand, and be sure that the corks be fast tied in with strong
pack-thread, for fear of rising out, or taking vent, which is the utter spoil
of the ale. Now for the small drink arising from this bottle ale, or any other
beer or ale whatsoever, if you keep it after it is blinked and boiled in a
close vessel, and then put it to harm every morning as you have occasion to
use
it, the drink will drink a great deal the fresher. and be much more lively in
taste

Markham, Gervase: The English housewife. Michael R. Best, editor The English
Housewife, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1986.
 

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