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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Gorean Drinks


Ale: Gorean ale is closer to a honey lager, than to an ale or beer. A deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops, imported from Earth, in the early years. It is traditionally served in tankards or horns.
Bazi Tea: An herbal beverage, served hot and heavily sugared; traditionally drunk in three tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession.
Beer: RENCE: Steeped and fermented from the pith and crushed seeds of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk. Stored in casks.
Black Wine: Coffee; Traditionally served with white and yellow sugars and powdered bosk milk, in tiny cups; although in most taverns it is served in mugs. It is grown on the slopes of Thentis, it is thought to have come from Earth on a slave acquisition run. If asked to be serve as “Second Slave,” means to serve it black.
Breeding Wine: A sweet beverage, which counter acts the effects of the Slave Wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called ‘second wine,’ it’s made from the extract of the Teslik plant.
Chocolate: Made from the beans that was brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. It is served in higher class establishments.
Falarian Wine: An exquisite, rare and fabulously expensive wine, it’s cost would purchase a city. It’s existence, is only rumored among collectors.
Fermented Milk Curds: A Tuchuk drink, made from fermented bosk curds.
Ka-la-na: A very potent and dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Like the wines of Earth, the quality of Ka-la-na varies from that of a common table wine to premium brands. Ar is particularly noted for it’s production of fine Ka-la-na. Ka-la-na is also reported to have an aphrodisiac effect on females.
Kal-da: An alcoholic beverage made of Ka-la-na wine diluted with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, mixed with strong spices and served hot.
Liana Vine: A rainforest plant in which can be used as a source of drinking water.
Mead: Preferred beverage of the Northland, made with fermented honey, water and spice; traditionally served in a large animal horn.
Milk: BOSK: Rich, thick and taste sweet.
SAND KAIILA: Reddish with a strong, salty taste.
VERR: Thin, with a sharp sort of taste.Mulled Ka-la-na: Heated Ka-la-na with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of Ka-la-na fruit or tospit. Served warm in a goblet.
Paga: Grain based, distilled hard liquor, a kin to whiskey; Sometimes served warm to very hot. This is a drink, most often serve in Taverns, in a variety of vessels.
Sa-Tarna Paga: Usually known as paga. It is a brewed from the grain of Sa-Tarna and is similar to Earth whiskey. It symbolizes physical love (lust), and is served in a footed bowl, also kept warm in botas by the fire pit. Paga may also be served chilled.
Slave Wine: Brewed from bitter herbs, it acts as a contraceptive. Taken once per month.
Sul-Paga: Alcoholic beverage made from suls, which are similar to Earth’s potatoes; A kin to vodka.
Ta-Wine: A dry wine, made from Ta-grapes, from the Isle of Cos; served at room temperature or warm, in a tankard or goblet.
Turian Wine: A thick syrupy wine, so sweet and thick, that it is said, that one can see a thumbprint on it’s surface.
Water: Spring water from the mountains, the liana vine or the carpet plants from the rainforest area, inland of Schendi.
White Wine: A wine, light in color and taste. It is not described in detail, but just as white wine.

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