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Almanac

A guide to the brewing houses and their workings.

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The Commons

Eleven workings, printed in full, holding nothing back. They grant no effect of any kind. They are serviceable and they are plainly inferior, and every one of them can be made by anybody who reads this page.

Printed in full does not mean given to you. Every measure, every time and every wood is on the page, and a bottle worth the name still has to be made properly. Count what goes in. Watch the clock. Use the cask the page names, because a wrong one costs you the top grade on every page here but the first.

Whitebrew

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 8m
        Wheat/3
   2. CASK 3y, birch

Common Ale

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 8m
        Wheat/6
   2. CASK 5y, oak

Dark Ale

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 14m
        Wheat/8
   2. CASK 9y, dark oak

Cidre

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 7m
        Apple/6
   2. CASK 4y, oak

Mead

commons | all the year

   1. MIX 8m
        Honey Bottle/3
   2. CASK 4y, acacia

Herb Tisane

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 8m
        Grass/6
   2. MIX 6m
        Dandelion/8
        Honey Bottle/2

Aqua Vitae

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 14m
        Wheat/12
   2. STILL x5

Red Wine

commons | summer and autumn

   1. MIX 8m
        Sweet Berries/12
   2. CASK 12y, oak

Mason's Ale

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 16m
        Short Grass/6
        Wheat/12
   2. CASK 5y, spruce

Root Pottage

commons | all the year

   1. COOK 6m
        Beetroot/3
        Brown Mushroom/2
        Carrot/4

Posset

commons | all the year

   1. MIX 6m
        Alewife's Ale/2
        Egg/3
        Honey Bottle/2
        Milk Bucket/2
Read this guide alongside its source PDF. Its deliberate blanks are preserved. Source PDF