SC - Fw: [Mid] PALE event terminology

[Tyrca]

In a message dated 98-01-14 16:10:46 EST, you write:

<< 
 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 >>


I think that the Northmen (not Vikings, that is a job description) ice-
distilled mead, as they would allow the wine to ferment, and then take the ice
out of it, achieving the same thing as brandy.  As far as I can tell, they
didn't call it anything different than mead, they just drank it stronger.  

Tyrca
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