I'm reading Peter Haydon's 'Beer and Brittania: An Inebriated History of Britain' and have become interested in the gradual replacement of ale by beer during the medieval period. I would like to try ale - not the synonym for bitter beer, or IPA, or 'real ale' - but the original and distinct unhopped drink made from malted barley, water and yeast alone. Is it produced anywhere, or does anyone have any recipes?
In hope.
Clifford Shelley