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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Siris Books | | Page Count: | 450 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 25, 1998 | | Sales Rank: | 36,972th |
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This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 22 reviews)
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beer babble by Jeremy C. Crim  3 Stars
October 10, 2009
I was looking forward to getting some really good recipes from this books, which it does contain; however, it's full of legends and bologne that just waste space. He would've done better to leave out all that junk and just stick with the recipes! The book is way longer than it needed to be.
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I liked it a lot. by Shala Kerrigan (Anchorage)  4 Stars
September 13, 2009
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers:The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner is a book I picked up because it was cited in Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. Usually I review such things within a couple weeks of getting them, I just realized I hadn't told anyone what I thought of this yet.
It's 450 pages of editorializing, basic instructions for primitive brewing, and information about the religious and healing use of the herbs and plants used in brewing the meads, ales and beers in the book. Some of the herbs used in some of the recipes can be dangerous, but hopefully anyone messing around herbs knows to check a couple sources for possible side effects. I have a couple herbals I use a lot for just that. The author does have a lot of respect for non-Western cultures and belief systems.
I don't recommend this book for anyone who needs step by step instructions to feel confident about making home brews or anyone who thinks that home brews need expensive equipment. The brews are basic and easy with simple fermentation processes. But for people who want that and history of beer-like drinks used in sacred practices around the world, it's fantastic.
Since I'm a lot more interested in simple beers and wines, it's a book I like a lot. Plus knowing the basic processes of fermentation can help you come up with your own recipes for wines and meads. I think I want to try an Alaskan honey mead using flowers native to Alaska, local honey, and local berries next summer and the recipes in this book are easy enough to adapt I feel fairly confident I can.
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Beer Herbalism! by Donald Hunt 4 Stars
January 03, 2009
A fascinating and useful book on the deep history of beer-brewing. Buehner, an herbalist and a fine writer, takes an earth-based spiritual and ethnonological approach to beermaking. Learn how to make beer with healing herbs like heather, wood betony, juniper and mugwort. The recipe for Wood Betony Ale is worth the price of the book.
The one herb Buhner does not venerate is the hop, but that's okay because hops have legions of champions in the brewing world, and have laws on their side such as the German Reinheitsgebot which for almost five centuries forbade putting any herb besides hops in beer. In fact, Buhner sees the Reinheitsgebot as an early example of the War on Drugs. If you dare, you can follow Buhner's recipe for Gruit, an herb beer whose intoxicating properties drew the ire of 16th century German lawmakers. Be careful, though.
Buhner's book shows us what we have lost. He quotes a song by an Englishman named John Taylor written around 1620:
Song of Eight Ales
We went into the house of one John Pinners,
(A man that lives among a crew of sinners)
And there eight several sorts of Ale we had,
All able to make one starke drunke or mad
But I with courage bravely flinched not,
And gave the Towne leave to discharge the shot,
We had at one time set upon the table,
Good Ale of Hisope, `twas not Esope fable:
Then had we Ale of Sage, and Ale of Malt,
And Ale of Woorme-wood, that could make one halt,
With Ale of Rosemary, and Bettony,
And two Ales more, or else I needs must lye.
But to conclude this drinking Alye tale,
We had a sort of Ale called scurvy Ale.
If you want to recreate John Taylor's evening, Stephen Harrod Buhner has recipes for them all.
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Liberating! The Greatest Book on Brewing "Beers" by Frater Pantha (The Quiet Corner, CT, USA)  5 Stars
February 14, 2008
This book takes the reader to places most homebrew books never dare or dream to go. Most homebrew books are a rehash of boring methods, and recipes. This is NOT one of those books.
This book brings brewing back to its human level. It tells the tales of people around the world and the methods they have used since before most of the cultures could write. Making fermented drinks is a prehistoric art and doesn't need to be performed by people carrying scales and wearing white lab coats. Not all brewing has been done by the German beer "purity" law; in fact most has not, and hop only beer is a new (and boring) invention. The journey to cultures around the world and the insight into their fermentations of "beer" is exciting and wonderful (I use the quotes because some of the fermentations seem more like wonderful wines, meads, or fermentations that do not have easy modern labels but well worth experiencing).
This is really the best book on brewing I have ever read and I own a couple shelves full. The ideas and concepts alone are worth the price but it also contains easy to follow recipes to get you started on some lesser known brews which are not set in stone. The recipes are a stepping stone to get you to be a brewing artist and create your own masterpiece fermentations. If that were not enough the stories are priceless.
I have seen that some of the reviews seem to employ scare tactics that would lead you to believe that following the brewing recipes will get you sick or dead. The author is very careful about explaining the use of any herb that could be dangerous in any way, but he did not feel the need to be your nanny and delete the historic recipes from the book for your own protection. He has enough confidence that you can use some common sense and not be a total idiot. If you can't refrain from being a complete fool don't buy this book because it might be dangerous for you. Be sure to not drink the bleach when doing your laundry and avoid driving into brick walls when you get behind the wheel. Most of the readers of this book wont need this advice. The ones that should be worried will be too busy drooling in front of the latest game show on TV to actually read the book.
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Lots of Great Information by spookee67 (Santa Cruz CA) 4 Stars
October 28, 2007
Sacred Herbal Healing Beers offers detailed information about the historical use and healing properties of many herbs, along with recipes for using these herbs in the making of beer. This book is neither an herbal text, nor a step-by-step homebrew guide, but it does contain very useful information for both herbalists and home brewers. Be warned, there is a lot of folklore here and the spiritual and healing properties of each herb are discussed in depth, but there are some really awesome recipes too. As an amateur home brewer the most exiting thing for me is that the book offers you a chance to go beyond the usual self-contained beer kit recipes and encourages experimentation, often with great results (the Yarrow beer was outstanding!). If you use recipes as guidelines and cook with abandon this book is for you.
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