- Name and Title: THL Carrick MacSeáin, CoM, OSW
- Title of Project: Small Ale for the Stone
- Location: Shire of Nordenhal
- East Kingdom Wiki Link: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Carrick_MacSeain
- Website/Blog Link: https://carrick4.wordpress.com
- Category: Brewing
This recipe comes from the Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight, Opened, a compilation of period recipes for ales, meads, and other beverages. This is a “small ale”, which is a low alcohol beverage consisting of malted barley, hops, water and yeast.
In keeping, as closely as possible, with period practices and ingredients, I obtained the water used from a local spring, the hops were give to me by a local gardener. I stripped the cones from the bines and dried them in the sun. The yeast was barm (the foam or head from a fermenting wort) from a previous batch of ale, as was common period practice and noted in the recipe. Everything was cooked on a wood fire. Fermentation was done in a stainless steel keg, with an oak spiral added to simulate the conditions of cask fermentation.
Optional Additional Links: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Carrick%27s_Small_Ale