[Sca-cooks] fwd: [MR] BBC: Richard III's Diet and Drinking

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

It's important to realize that hops were long used as flavoring for both  
beer and mead, making references to them in rents ambivalent. The one 
reference  to their specifically being used to make beer is in Adalhard's statutes 
for  Corbie (the 822 reference), where the porter is given a tenth of the 
hops to  make his own beer:

"De humlone quoque , postquam ad monasterium venerit ,  décima ei portio de 
singulis servidis per singulos menses detur. Si vero hoc ei  non sufficit, 
ipse vel comparando, vel quolibet alio modo, sibi adquirat unde ad  cervisas 
suas faciendas sufficienter habeat."

_http://books.google.com/books?id=cj8_AAAAcAAJ&dq=%22de%20humlone%22&pg=PA33
4#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=cj8_AAAAcAAJ&dq="de%20humlone"&pg=PA334#v=onepage&q&f=false) 


Otherwise, "hopped ale" was already being very officially made in Belgium  
in 1364:
 
"In 1364 the bishop of Liege and Utrecht acknowledged that over the  
previous thirty to fifty years a new way of making beer had become known which  
used an herb called hops"
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-fourteenth-century-dietetic-belgian.h
tml

Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

French cities of the Dark  Ages
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/08/french-cities-of-dark-ages.html




In  a message dated 8/18/2014 8:38:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
t.d.decker at att.net  writes:
Hopping, which may be dated to 822 (and possibly earlier) in  Carolingian 
France (there is some disagreement between sources as to the  first 
reference 
to hops in brewing), doesn't appear to be common practice  until the 13th 
or 
14th Century in Central Europe.