Drinks

The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been the measure of five gallons...It was the victory ale." (page 82, Book 9, Marauders of Gor)

"...'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured." (page 139, Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor)

I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. This black wine is quite expensive. Men have been slain on Gor for attempting to smuggle the beans out of the Thentian territories." (page 21, Book 12, Beasts of Gor)

"I lifted the tiny silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the black wine. It's strength and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually only a drop or a few drops at a time. Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps, for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I too, would surely have had recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served." (page 247, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor)

'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," the first slave being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served.....The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving." (page 244&245, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor)

"This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No Mistress," she said, "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics." (page 61, Book 19, Kajira of Gor)

My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally, food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer." (page 295, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor)

"Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted ka-la-na wine, mixed with citrus juices and stinging spices. I did not care much for the mouth warming concoction, but it was popular with some of the lower castes, particularly those who performed strenuous manual labor. I expected its popularity was due more to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs, and to its cheapness (a poor grade of Ka-la-na was used in its brewing) then to any gustatory excellence." (page 76, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor

"I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the proprietor had placed a large, fat pot of steaming Kal-da before me. It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh." (page 78, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor)

"After the meal I tasted a drink, which might not inappropriately be described as an almost incandescent wine, bright, dry, and powerful." (page 26, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor)

"...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave...It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female." (page 114, Book 7, Captive of Gor)

"I turned, and among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl...Again I took the bowl from the fire. It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to do so. I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-rimmed wine crater..." (page 331&332, Book 7, Captive of Gor)

"In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga." (page 16, Book 24, Vagabonds of Gor)

" 'Here Jarl,' said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvoldsland, brewed from fermented, honey, thick and sweet." (page 90, Book 9, Marauders of Gor)

"Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried." (page 78, Book 9, Marauders of Gor)

"At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant." (page 18, Book 6, Raiders of Gor)

"I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." (page 74, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor)

"The proprietor, sweating, aproned, was tipping yet another great bottle of paga in its sling, filling cups, that they might be borne to the drinkers." (page 105, Book 6, Raiders of Gor)

"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it to me." (page 298, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor)

"Paga," called a man. I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. I knelt and filled his cup." (page 293, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor)

"I thrust out the silver paga goblet, studded with rubies, and Telima, standing beside my throne like chair, filled it." (page 223, Book 6, Raiders of Gor)

"Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses." (page 77, Renegades of Gor)

"The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle. 'Is that not the paga of Ar?' I asked. 'Is it not one of your favorites?' he asked, 'See,' he said, 'It has the seal of the brewer, Temus.' 'That is remarkable,' I said. 'You are very thoughtful.' 'I have been saving it,' he told me. 'For me?' I asked. 'of course,' he said. 'I was confident you would get through.' 'I am honored,' I said. 'I have waited so long to talk to you,' he said. He poured two glasses of paga, and reclosed the bottle. We lifted the glasses and touched them, the one to the other. 'To our war,' he said. 'To our war,' I said. We drank" (page 371&372, Book 12, Beasts of Gor)

"`Your paga,' said the nude slave girl, who served me, her wrists chained. `It is warmed as you wished.' I took it from her, not even glancing upon her, and drained the goblet... I liked paga warm. One felt is so much the sooner that way." (page 100, Book 6, Raiders of Gor)

"The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend to be fond of hot paga." (page 16, Vagabonds of Gor)

Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is clear as water...the still with its tanks and pipes lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus, our host, was caste leader. 'Excellent,' said my master, sipping the sul paga. He could have been commenting only on the potency of the drink, for Sul paga is almost tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga. Last night one of the men had held my head back and forced me to swallow a mouthful. In moments things had gone black and I had fallen unconscious." (page 134, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor)

"My master extended his cup to me, and I, kneeling, filled it with sul paga. I pressed my lips to the cup, and handed it to him. My eyes smarted. I almost felt drunk from the fumes." (page 134, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor)

"Sul paga, as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a thalarion. To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations. And even then, it is said, it is difficult to manage. There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later." (page 414, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor)

"Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effect lasts for more than a Gorean month. I did not wish the females to conceive. A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her master's intention to breed her." (page 23&24, Book 9, Marauders of Gor)

"From a spout on the vessel, grinning, Gorm filled the golden cup. The liquid swirling in the cup was black. ... She looked at the black liquid. 'Drink,' said the Forkbeard. She lifted it to her lips, and tasted it. She closed her eyes and lifted her face. 'It is too bitter,' she wept...One by one, the prizes of Ivar Forkbeard, even the rich, proud Aelgifu, were forced to down the slave wine." (page 83&84, Book 9, Marauders of Gor)

It was Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos...In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar." (page 306, Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor)

"I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprints on their surface." (page 83&84, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

When wine is drunk with Gorean meals, at home, incidentally, it is almost always diluted, mixed with water in a krater. At a party of convivial supper the host, or elected feast master, usually determines the proportions of water to wine. Unmixed wine, of course, may be drunk, for example, at the parties of young men, at which might appear dancers, flute slaves and such. Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation, are very strong, often having an alcoholic content by volume of forty to fifty percent." (page 70, Book 23, Renegades of Gor)


	Three Oaks Haven \| Library Drinks \| Food \| Animals \| Castes \| Slave positions \| Slave clothing \| Begging of Use \| kajirae information Drinks The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been the measure of five gallons...It was the victory ale." (page 82, Book 9, Marauders of Gor) "...'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured." (page 139, Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor) Black Wine I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. This black wine is quite expensive. Men have been slain on Gor for attempting to smuggle the beans out of the Thentian territories." (page 21, Book 12, Beasts of Gor) "I lifted the tiny silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the black wine. It's strength and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually only a drop or a few drops at a time. Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps, for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I too, would surely have had recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served." (page 247, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor) 'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," the first slave being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served.....The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving." (page 244&245, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor) "This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No Mistress," she said, "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics." (page 61, Book 19, Kajira of Gor) THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally, food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer." (page 295, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor) Kal-da "Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted ka-la-na wine, mixed with citrus juices and stinging spices. I did not care much for the mouth warming concoction, but it was popular with some of the lower castes, particularly those who performed strenuous manual labor. I expected its popularity was due more to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs, and to its cheapness (a poor grade of Ka-la-na was used in its brewing) then to any gustatory excellence." (page 76, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor "I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the proprietor had placed a large, fat pot of steaming Kal-da before me. It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh." (page 78, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor) "After the meal I tasted a drink, which might not inappropriately be described as an almost incandescent wine, bright, dry, and powerful." (page 26, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) Ka-la-na "...Ka-la-nas, sweets and drys, from distant Ar." (page 213, Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor) "...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave...It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female." (page 114, Book 7, Captive of Gor) "I turned, and among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl...Again I took the bowl from the fire. It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to do so. I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-rimmed wine crater..." (page 331&332, Book 7, Captive of Gor) "...kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface " (page 79, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) Mead "In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga." (page 16, Book 24, Vagabonds of Gor) " 'Here Jarl,' said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvoldsland, brewed from fermented, honey, thick and sweet." (page 90, Book 9, Marauders of Gor) "Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried." (page 78, Book 9, Marauders of Gor) Milks - Verr and Bosk " The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong." (page 60, Book 17, Savages of Gor) "I heard the lowing of the milk bosk from among the wagons." (page 27, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) "Too I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night." (page 295, Book 16, Guardsman of Gor) Beer "At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant." (page 18, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) Sa-Tarna Paga "I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." (page 74, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor) "The proprietor, sweating, aproned, was tipping yet another great bottle of paga in its sling, filling cups, that they might be borne to the drinkers." (page 105, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) "I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it to me." (page 298, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor) "Paga," called a man. I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. I knelt and filled his cup." (page 293, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor) "Another girl ran to him, bearing a cup of paga." (page 102, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) "I thrust out the silver paga goblet, studded with rubies, and Telima, standing beside my throne like chair, filled it." (page 223, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) "Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses." (page 77, Renegades of Gor) "The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle. 'Is that not the paga of Ar?' I asked. 'Is it not one of your favorites?' he asked, 'See,' he said, 'It has the seal of the brewer, Temus.' 'That is remarkable,' I said. 'You are very thoughtful.' 'I have been saving it,' he told me. 'For me?' I asked. 'of course,' he said. 'I was confident you would get through.' 'I am honored,' I said. 'I have waited so long to talk to you,' he said. He poured two glasses of paga, and reclosed the bottle. We lifted the glasses and touched them, the one to the other. 'To our war,' he said. 'To our war,' I said. We drank" (page 371&372, Book 12, Beasts of Gor) "She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kantharos... before me." (page 71, Renegades of Gor) "`Your paga,' said the nude slave girl, who served me, her wrists chained. `It is warmed as you wished.' I took it from her, not even glancing upon her, and drained the goblet... I liked paga warm. One felt is so much the sooner that way." (page 100, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) "The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend to be fond of hot paga." (page 16, Vagabonds of Gor) Sul paga Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is clear as water...the still with its tanks and pipes lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus, our host, was caste leader. 'Excellent,' said my master, sipping the sul paga. He could have been commenting only on the potency of the drink, for Sul paga is almost tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga. Last night one of the men had held my head back and forced me to swallow a mouthful. In moments things had gone black and I had fallen unconscious." (page 134, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor) "My master extended his cup to me, and I, kneeling, filled it with sul paga. I pressed my lips to the cup, and handed it to him. My eyes smarted. I almost felt drunk from the fumes." (page 134, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor) "Sul paga, as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a thalarion. To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations. And even then, it is said, it is difficult to manage. There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later." (page 414, Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor) Slave Wine "Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effect lasts for more than a Gorean month. I did not wish the females to conceive. A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her master's intention to breed her." (page 23&24, Book 9, Marauders of Gor) "From a spout on the vessel, grinning, Gorm filled the golden cup. The liquid swirling in the cup was black. ... She looked at the black liquid. 'Drink,' said the Forkbeard. She lifted it to her lips, and tasted it. She closed her eyes and lifted her face. 'It is too bitter,' she wept...One by one, the prizes of Ivar Forkbeard, even the rich, proud Aelgifu, were forced to down the slave wine." (page 83&84, Book 9, Marauders of Gor) Ta Wine It was Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos...In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar." (page 306, Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor) "Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos..." (page 213, Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor) Turian Wine "...Turian wine, thick and sweet." (page 213, Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor) "I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprints on their surface." (page 83&84, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) IMPORTANT When wine is drunk with Gorean meals, at home, incidentally, it is almost always diluted, mixed with water in a krater. At a party of convivial supper the host, or elected feast master, usually determines the proportions of water to wine. Unmixed wine, of course, may be drunk, for example, at the parties of young men, at which might appear dancers, flute slaves and such. Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation, are very strong, often having an alcoholic content by volume of forty to fifty percent." (page 70, Book 23, Renegades of Gor)