[Sca-cooks] beer

[grizly]

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> > > > To wrench this back to something resembling on-topic, are lambics
even
remotely period?<<SNIP>>

While I canot document the existance of the word "Lambic" as a style or the
prevalence of the consumption of the liquid, lambic is a beer that has been
innoculated by wild yeast cultures and bacteria to give it the chracteristic
tartness.

TRADITIONALLY:  Krieks  are cherry flavored lambics; framboise is raspberry
flavored lambic.  It is painfully simple to create such a beverage, and the
Belgian breweries have used open fermentation vats for centuries.  It is
more than likely that the beers have been soured by the yeast/bacteria as a
matter of course for that particular region, and the natural flora have
varied over time.  The wild yeast/bacteria today are very possibly (maybe
probably) not the exact same as were present in 1500's.

niccolo difrancesco