Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, Stephen Harrod Buhner
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/29/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Fermentation and plant use—as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on life's path—are an inescapable part of our exploration of what it means to be human. Thus, this book conflicts with a number of popular beliefs about alcohol, plants, and the nature of material reality. It is, therefore, not politically correct.

The ancient beers, created . . . between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, were quite different from what we know as beer today. Many were sacred beers . . ., and hundreds contained medicinal herbs. —From the book

The author's beautiful and provocative exploration of the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation is revealed through 200 plants and hive products. This book includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from thirty-one countries and six continents—and the most complete evaluation of honey ever published.

About Stephen Harrod Buhner

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. He is the award-winning author of more than twenty books, including Healing Lyme, Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections, Herbal Antibiotics, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. He has taught for more than thirty years throughout North America and Europe on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, and the intelligence of nature. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick on February 10, 2012

An interesting and very quirky book. Strangely enough, it reminded me a lot of David Graeber's "Debt." Although the subject matters are obviously completely different, they share a feeling of great scope and broadening horizons. Both Graeber and Buhner work to show that "the way things are now" in W......more

Goodreads review by Becky on July 28, 2009

Free your brewing from the tyranny of hops and barley! This is a specialized book. I gave it five stars, but I would only recommend it to someone who has interests in brewing and herbalism. I certainly don't agree with everything Buhner says, but there is much food for thought mixed in among the rec......more

Goodreads review by Karen on November 15, 2011

This is an amazing book that explores and explains the traditional processes and meanings behind making mead, ale and beer. Included in the text are not only recipes from the MIddle Ages and Renaissance and explanations of how and why indigenous peoples made their brews, but detailed explanations of......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on May 28, 2008

Even if you're put off by the words "sacred" and "healing", I'd still recommend this book to round out a brewing education. For starters, there is a good bit of brewing history in here, detailing how beer used to be made (hops are relatively recent, for example). This book is great for identifying a......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on September 03, 2008

A wealth of knowledge and insight... This book brings clarity to why and how our culture is now seeing the dark side of addiction. Buhner encourages us to brew...and to connect to low-alcohol content substances that used to be a part of our everyday life.......more