This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Beer Herbalism!:
A fascinating and useful book on the deep history of beer-brewing. Buehner, an herbalist and a fine writer, takes an earth-based spiritual and ethnonological approach to beermaking. Learn how to make beer with healing herbs like heather, wood betony, juniper and mugwort. The recipe for Wood Betony Ale is worth the price of the book. The one herb Buhner does not venerate is the hop, but that's okay because hops have legions of champions in the brewing world, and have laws on their side such as the... more info
Liberating! The Greatest Book on Brewing "Beers":
This book takes the reader to places most homebrew books never dare or dream to go. Most homebrew books are a rehash of boring methods, and recipes. This is NOT one of those books.
This book brings brewing back to its human level. It tells the tales of people around the world and the methods they have used since before most of the cultures could write. Making fermented drinks is a prehistoric art and doesn't need to be performed by people carrying scales and wearing white lab coats. Not all brewing... more info
Lots of Great Information:
Sacred Herbal Healing Beers offers detailed information about the historical use and healing properties of many herbs, along with recipes for using these herbs in the making of beer. This book is neither an herbal text, nor a step-by-step homebrew guide, but it does contain very useful information for both herbalists and home brewers. Be warned, there is a lot of folklore here and the spiritual and healing properties of each herb are discussed in depth, but there are some really awesome recipes too. As an... more info
Some interesting, some stupid:
The author's axe has been ground down to a thin edge. The main faces of the blade are 1) Western medicine is bad and doesn't work
2) Plant medicine does largely because of some mystical "sacredness"
3) The same can be said for the Abrahamic religions and the ostensibly more authentic and "spiritual" traditions from anywhere else. That's not my main beef with this book. It's downright dangerous. Many of the formulae are unknown quantities, and I'd be interested in trying them. Some of... more info
