Hypocras: from the Middle Ages to the present day
Hypocras is a drink made from wine, honey, sometimes sugar and spices.
Often wrongly attributed to the Greek physician of ancient Hippocrates, the term hypocras appeared in the 14th century.
We find traces of wines "with spices and honey" in ancient Rome and among the Celts (from 800 BC).
There are many ways...
Mead: simply water, honey and yeast?
Mead, etymologically water and honey (ancient Greek then Latin) is one of the first alcoholic drinks made by humans.
Widespread among the ancient Greeks, then the Romans and Gauls as well as Nordic peoples such as the Vikings, the mead was supplanted around the 13th century by the hypocras.
The recipe for mead is simple:...
Shipping and packaging of our products
Bottles are inherently strong and fragile. Solid because glass, as long as it is not shocked, is robust and ideal (neutral) for the conservation of drinks such as wine and mead. Fragile because during transport (not always carried out with care by the carriers), it can break under the effect of a brutal shock.
The recipes of Moretum and Coulindrum are derived, like many recipes of the Middle Ages, from the "Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria", an anonymous work in Latin of the 13th century which...