[Sca-cooks] Boiling wort was Re: Stefan's Florilegium files for November

[Terry Decker]

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