[Sca-cooks] Boiling wort was Re: Stefan's Florilegium files for November
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Nov 18 14:40:00 PST 2014
Open question about boiling the wort a second time after the mashing.
Mashing has used boiling or near boiling water since the time of the
Sumerians (reference The Hymn to Ninkasi), but boiling wort doesn't seem to
happen before 1600.
Why don't you try these two pages to get started.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/liz_brewing.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html
You might also find Cindy Renfrow's website useful,
http://www.thousandeggs.com/links.html#Beer%20Links
To really find out when it starts, you probably need to reference 18th and
19th Century brewing texts until you find a starting date, then compare
comments of quality and spoilage of beer and ale over time.
Bear
Along those lines was the wort boiled in period before yeast were added
when making ale or beers?
Any evidence either way?
Magnus
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