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[roadrunnertwice]

Uh, this book is a hell of an eye-opener:

To make cock-ale, take ten gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better, parboil the cock, flea him and stamp him in a stone mortar til his bones are broken (you must craw and gut him when you flea him), then put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it three pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, some blades of mace, and a few cloves: put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find the ale has done working, put the ale and bag together into a vessel. In a week or nine days' time bottle it up, fill the bottles to just above the neck, and give it the time to ripen as other ale.

You dry-hopped your shit with a pulverized mostly-raw rooster. SURELY THOU SHITTETH ME. But no, this is a thing. In fact, here's a bro who actually made it, although he wussed out and baked the chicken instead of just stomping the fuck out of it. (Psssshhh.)