Hello! Friends,
These are some of the abbreviations on beverages.
I have collected them from internet.
I hope this list helps you in updating yourself, just in case
you are not aware of the same.
1.Apricot-Cidal -’Apricot Cardamom Cordial’ by Constance de LaRose.
2.Absinthe - A cordial made with wormwood.
3.Beverages-NA - Non-alcoholic beverages.
4.Bev-water - Water as a beverage in period.
5.Caudls-art - A medieval drink of warm wine or beer thickened with eggs by Tibor.
6.Caudls-posets - Caudles and Possets. Thickened beverages.
7.Cider-art - Article on brewing ciders.
8.Cider - Apple and other ciders. Cider presses.
9.Clarea-d-Agua-art -’Period drinks - Spiced Wines and Sweet Waters’ by Vicente Coenca.
10.Coffee - Coffee and coffee-type drinks.
11.Jalabs - Drinks with a sugar or honey-syrup base.
12.Kumiss - Mongol drink made from mare’s milk.
13.Kvass - Russian drink made from bread or grains.
14.Lea-bottles Leather bottles and jacks.
15.Mead - Making mead. Honey based alcholic beverage.
16.Meadery-list - Lists and reviews of commercial meaderies.
17.P-bottles - Period beverage bottles and stoppers.
18.P-toasting - Toasting customs in period. Referances.
19.Peach-Brandy-art -’Peach Coriander Brandy’ by Constance de LaRose.
20.Perry - A cider made with pear juice.
21.Tea - Tea, cha. When it appeared in Europe.
22.Wassail - Spiced cider and ale drinks.
23.Seltzer - Sodium & sugar free carbonated water with no additives.
24.Tonic - A sugar sweetened soft drink with quinine added.
25.Aquifer - An underground reservoir of water surrounded by porous rock, sand and gravel.
Thanks
A.B
P.S: on the suggestion of all friends, I have reformated this review.
Hope you all like it now.
Updated on March 28, ’03.