SC - Brandy

[Louise Sugar]

So, Bear, when are you coming to join us over on the distilling list??  :D


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From: Decker, Terry D. <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: 'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG' <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: SC - Brandy


>>Philippa said:
>>>Please remember that Brandy, of a sort, and thus
>>>distilling has been around since Roman times.
>>
>>I thought Brandy was not known until the 13th century or
>>later. What makes you think it was known in Roman times?
>>
>>What is Brandy distilled from? Is there a drink distilled
>>from mead?
>>
>>Stefan li Rous
>
>Brandy is distilled from wine, any wine.  What we normally call brandy
>is distilled from grape wine.  Other fruit brandies are distilled from
>fruit wine or fermented juices, peach brandy, black berry brandy,
>kirchwasser, etc.
>
>Distillation has long been used to seperate liquids and a simple
>distillation will produce about a 40 proof alcohol.  The distillation
>process was improved around 800 C.E. by Jabir ibn Hayyan.
>
>The first modern brandy was distilled in approximately 1300 C.E. at the
>Montpellier medical school by Arnaldus de Villa Nova, a French medical
>professor.
>
>Dates are courtesy of The Food Chronology and the MS Encyclopedia, which
>have exactly the same text.
>
>Bear
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