It's smack in the gruit tradition:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit
Don't fall for the capitalists' revisionist narrative around
'commercialization'. Indigenous brewers have been making good beer out of
all sorts of plants for millennia. And don't fall for the Temperance
teatotaller garbage e
My Appalachian ancestors were quite fond of both sarsparilla vine and
sassafrass tree root-products as an herbal tonic. They were prone to
making teas (more appropriately tisanes) from this for medicinal/comfort
purposes. None that I know of were brewers, though they likely did use
these (an
Ben is a long-time friend, a former prof. of public health at UNM, a story
teller and a fiddle player. I think I have seen all the documentaries he's
made, so this one promises to be as good as all the others. And the topic
is important and timely.
Please contribute if you can.
Tom
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I started at Caltech in 1960, the year before Feynman Physics. Before Feynman
took over the course, freshman physics was a terrible course that focused for
the first two quarters on mechanics problems with a lot of strings and pulleys.
I hated it. Feynman once claimed he started Feynman Physics
