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The following pdfs contain the documentation I have used with considerable success at many SCA brewing competitions. Please feel free to use this documentation as the basis for your own research. I ask, however, that you do not use this documentation as your own. You should do your own research, as you will no doubt find many things I have missed.
The Making of Mead (a booklet version of this web site) (524 kb pdf)
A Mead from a 13th/14th Century English Manuscript (504 kb pdf)
From a 13th/14th century english manuscript:
the Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationibus eius
An Arab Mead (Pyment) (92 kb pdf)
From the Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi, written by Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (c. 800-870).
A Spiced Mead (Methaglin) (80 kb pdf)
From Le Menagier de Paris, c. 1393
Beverages for the Sick - Bochet
Pinot Noir Wine (76 kb pdf)
From Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.). Natural History, 10 vols. London: Harward University Press, 1992.
Latin text with English translation. and the Oxford English Dictionary
British Brown Beer (56 kb pdf)
Based on Gervase Markham from his work The English Housewife (1615)
An English Beer (dated 1503) (100 kb pdf)
From Arnold’s Chronicle, written by Richard Arnold (1503)
Last update: November 5, 2007.
The Making of Mead
by Stephen D. Pursley
Copyright © 1999 Stephen D. Pursley
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