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Often radical and controversial, Buhner has clearly and beautifully explored the mysterious universal beliefs between ancient arid indigenous cultures as to the spirituality and healing power of plants and fermentation. In the spirit of Carlos Castenada, he forges a quest in pursuit of the experiential. Highlights of comprehensive information never presented in one volume include: mead, honey and hive products; heather ale; psychotropic beers; and beers and ales from sacred and medicinal trees and plants.
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Few of us realize how deep and pervasive the world of "beer" is. Unknown to most of us nearly all the world's indigenous peoples brewed beers and wines; all of them considered it a sacred process. In the legends of the world's peoples we are told that the human capacity for creating art in language (poetry) came from our original ingestion of fermented beverages. In fact, alcohol stimulates just the portion of the brain that creates in language. Beer moved into a new dimension in ancient Europe where those ancient brewers learned to ferment herbal infusions to help heal the troubles of the human condition. Little known is that many of these herbal fermentations were also highly inebriating and sexually stimulating. In reaction the protestant reformists fought for 250 years to pass laws forcing beers to use only hops as an herbal additive. And hops has unique medicinal effects - it puts the drinker to sleep and dulls sexual drive in men. In fact there is a well-known condition in England called Brewer's droop referring to the inability of men to achieve erection from too much hops ingestion. And hops does contain phytoestrogens that work remarkably well in hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause. As I researched this book this whole incredible world of fermentation came alive in ways I did not expect. Truly the whole history of the human species is deeply interwoven with fermentation. It is a remarkable world. Whether you read my book or not I hope you look deeper. Perhaps like me you will find the faces of our ancestors looking back.
Few of us realize how deep and pervasive the world of "beer" is. Unknown to most of us nearly all the world's indigenous peoples brewed beers and wines; all of them considered it a sacred process. In the legends of the world's peoples we are told that the human capacity for creating art in language (poetry) came from our original ingestion of fermented beverages. In fact, alcohol stimulates just the portion of the brain that creates in language. Beer moved into a new dimension in ancient Europe where those ancient brewers learned to ferment herbal infusions to help heal the troubles of the human condition. Little known is that many of these herbal fermentations were also highly inebriating and sexually stimulating. In reaction the protestant reformists fought for 250 years to pass laws forcing beers to use only hops as an herbal additive. And hops has unique medicinal effects - it puts the drinker to sleep and dulls sexual drive in men. In fact there is a well-known condition in England called Brewer's droop referring to the inability of men to achieve erection from too much hops ingestion. And hops does contain phytoestrogens that work remarkably well in hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause. As I researched this book this whole incredible world of fermentation came alive in ways I did not expect. Truly the whole history of the human species is deeply interwoven with fermentation. It is a remarkable world. Whether you read my book or not I hope you look deeper. Perhaps like me you will find the faces of our ancestors looking back.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a real winner. I love brewing country wines and beers and this book is packed full of recipes for indigenous trees and plants. I've started some birch sap sparkling wine and a sycamore sap sparkling wine (adapted from the Maple recipe) and plan a few others.
Being long haired, beardy and with a healthy habit of sitting out by open fires in the woods, it's easy to be empathetic with the author and his connection to nature based beliefs. He immerses into the lives and brewing techniques of indigenous people all over the World, past and present, which adds yet another dimension to the interest value of this book. This is a man who works with respect and with immense researching skills.
It's not worth knocking off a star for this tiny point, but I would have been happier with metric measurements in the recipes. Saying that - The conversions are fairly easy.
Happy brewing and foraging.
Being long haired, beardy and with a healthy habit of sitting out by open fires in the woods, it's easy to be empathetic with the author and his connection to nature based beliefs. He immerses into the lives and brewing techniques of indigenous people all over the World, past and present, which adds yet another dimension to the interest value of this book. This is a man who works with respect and with immense researching skills.
It's not worth knocking off a star for this tiny point, but I would have been happier with metric measurements in the recipes. Saying that - The conversions are fairly easy.
Happy brewing and foraging.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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this book is brilliant, it containes recepies, history behind the herps and a explenation to why they are or arent a part of brewing to day
as a brewer that likes to brew beer and wine out of the ordinary this book is a bibel that makes life alot easier, so instead of making alot of experiments to get the right taste and fermentation, just look it up in "Sacred and Herbal Healing beers"Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
as a brewer that likes to brew beer and wine out of the ordinary this book is a bibel that makes life alot easier, so instead of making alot of experiments to get the right taste and fermentation, just look it up in "Sacred and Herbal Healing beers"Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Extensive guide to brewing with different herbs. The book is full of citations, poetry and references, which makes it an interesting read that will last for hours, not mentioning the recipes allowing to investigate the potential of many herbs, also found in Europe.
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