[Regia-NA] Info on halbier or halbi, Viking Normand Apple pear breuvage?

[Wulfhere se Treowryhta]

How can one test the alchohol level apart from drinking a pint? Here in 
Massachusetts, USA, Nanny capital of the free world,  all cider must be 
pasteurized. Most farms stopped making cider at that point as it was 
too costly a process. As kids we used to buy quarts of cider and set 
them in a dark spot with the cap loose. Pretty nasty stuff but if you 
don't mind loosing a little volume you can rack it off which gets rid 
of the slimy sludge on the bottom. Amazing what you can live through 
contrary to popular beliefs. I think the whole thing stemmed from the 
"Odwala" incident where a few children died from apple juice. Seems the 
deer where doing their business in the orchard like they always do, and 
the machinery didn't notice.  There's no substitute for preparing your 
own food with your own hands. Now I just shortcut the process and drop 
some Jack Daniels in the store stuff. ....It's apple time here, may 
have to go picking and fashion a press....


On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Hrolf Douglasson wrote:

> 10% is known...its normally cloudy and rough, with legends about dead 
> dogs
> in it:)
> vara
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete James" <peter@citizen.co.uk>
> To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Info on halbier or halbi, Viking Normand Apple 
> pear
> breuvage?
>
>
> Hi
>
> The term "scrumpy" can be used in more than one sense and mean 
> different
> things to different people, but mainly it means cider made more or less
> entirely from apples using traditional methods.
>
> This basically means that the juice is extracted from the apples 
> (preferably
> proper cider apples; although good cider can be made using other types 
> of
> apple) and then fermented naturally, usually without anything else much
> being added. The scrumpy is then left to mature and after a while will 
> be
> ready for the user.
>
> 5% alcohol by volume is not good, 8% is better and more common 
> ............
>
> Good stuff.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wulfhere se Treowryhta [mailto:wulfhere@masspostroad.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: list-regia-na@lig.net
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Info on halbier or halbi, Viking Normand Apple
> pear breuvage?
>
>
> OK....    What's scrumpy?
>
>
> On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 02:45 AM, Hrolf Douglasson wrote:
>
>> Perry is an alcoholic drink made in the same way as cider, but with
>> pears.
>> Don't forget cider is very alcoholic in the UK.
>> Vara (long time scrumpy drinker..if you don't know you won't believe:)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Benoit Fiset
>> To: list-regia-na@lig.net
>> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:06 PM
>> Subject: [Regia-NA] Info on halbier or halbi, Viking Normand Apple
>> pear breuvage?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently talk with a freinds who is looking for info on this
>> breuvage. It'semes to be call Halbier or Halbi. It's also seems to be
>> a breuvage close to cider made from Pears and Apple...Any one as info
>> on that...
>>
>> Thank's
>>
>> Godfroy
>> Dex Aie!
>>
>
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