It will keep five or six weeks.
ALE WITH HONEY
Sir Thomas Gower makes his pleasant and wholesom drink of Ale and Honey
thus. Take fourty Gallons of small Ale, and five Gallons of Honey. When the
Ale is ready to Tun, and is still warm, take out ten Gallons of it; which,
whiles it is hot, mingle with it the five Gallons of Honey, stirring it
exceeding well with a clean arm till they be perfectly incorporated. Then
cover it, and let it cool and stand still. At the same time you begin to
dissolve the honey in this parcel, you take the other of thirty Gallons
also warm, and Tun it up with barm, and put it into a vessel capable to
hold all the whole quantity of Ale and Honey, and let it work there; and
because the vessel will be so far from being full, that the gross foulness
of the Ale cannot work over, make holes in the sides of the Barrel even
with the superficies of the Liquor in it, out of which the gross feculence
may purge; and these holes must be fast shut, when you put in the rest of
the Ale with the Honey: which you must do, when you see the strong working
of the other is over; and that it works but gently, which may be after two
or three or four days, according to the warmth of the season.
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