Documenting Period Homebrew

Class notes and slides by Madoc Arundel

Period Texts

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened (1669)
by Kenelm Digby

The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1670)
by Hannah Woolley

A perfite platforme of a hoppe garden (1538)
A 16th century source on farming hops.

Of Hony - A collection of Mediaeval brewing recipes
Susan Verberg: A collection of Medieval brewing recipes for mead, metheglin, braggot, hippocras &c. -including how to process honey- from the 1600’s and earlier.