From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 12 Aug 1994 - 11:00:01 EEST
Argrath@aol.com:
> Commentary on "The Beers of Glorantha":
> Thus, the Orlanthi
> (analogous to early Iron Age or Dark Age Celts and Germans) don't
> use hops, even if they're growing right under their noses.
"Thus", indeed. Next you'll be telling us the Starfires don't distill whisky!
> The dates, figs, and
> honey are from a Sumerian recipe of about 4000 years ago. About the same
> time, they were making beer on the Scottish island of Rhum.
"Authentic" spelling is Rum, btw, Rhum is a late-18th-century-pseudo- gaellicisation, or some such. I won't hazard a guess on how they spelt it in 2000BC.
Alex.
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