The new WFMU air schedule starts up on June 4th, and among other non-changes, I'm staying put - Fridays from noon-3pm. However, in the interest of honoring the few actual changes, as well as summertime and, well, Beer, I'll be adding a feature to the show: a beer-tasting, every Friday at 2:45pm. So take a late lunch, or revel in your precious Summer Hours, o publishing industry, and have a drink with us, over the radio! Each week, it'll be a different beer, drunk and discussed by a revolving panel of enthusiasts (and not snobs), featuring, though not limited to, Bill Zurat, Mike Lupica, Jason Slack and X-Ray Burns. I'll publish each week's beer ahead of time (still working out the details), but there's one type of beer I'll guarantee you we shall not be sampling: Cock Ale.
Take an old red, or other cock, the older the better, and boyle him indifferent well; then flea [flay] his skin clean off, and beat him flesh and bones in a stone mortar all to mash. You must craw and gut him when you flea him , then slice into him half a pound of dates, two nutmegs quartered, two or three blaids of mace, four cloves; and put to all this two quarts of sack that is very good; stop all this up very close that no air may get to it for the space of sixteen hours; then tun eight gallons of strong ale into your barrel so timely as it may have done working at the sixteen hours’ end; and then put thereinto your infusion and stop it close for five days, then bottle it in stone bottles; be sure your corks are very good, and tye them with pack-thread; and about a fortnight or three weeks after you may begin to drink of it; you must also put into your infusion two pound of raisins of the sun stoned.
Yes, Chicken Beer.
That recipe's taken from Edward Spencer’s The Flowing Bowl (1903), which cites “The English Housewyfe, containing the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a complete Woman", published by Nicholas Okes at the sign of the golden Unicorne, in 1631.”
does the fcc no longer prohibit alcoholic beverages within a certain distance of the board?
long ago at wrct, they had a keg set up that was exactly 1 foot past whatever the forbidden line was.
it was fun to be caught at the tap right when the song you were playing stopped.
Posted by: craig | May 25, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Apparently, the rule only pertains to drunken control of the board. I got the all-clear.
Posted by: Scott | May 25, 2007 at 05:44 PM
at wosr we had only one rule about beer - DON'T spill it on the control board! :)
oh, and puking on it was fairly taboo, as well.............
Posted by: craig | May 25, 2007 at 08:20 PM