Beverages

All the following beverages are found in the World of Greyhawk™, though this list is comprehensive, it is not necessarily a definitive one.

Non-alcoholic beverages

• Coffee (see also: kaffet below)
• Juice
• Milk—cow's milk and goat's milk (including cream, whipped cream,, and whey)
• Tea (incl. roanwood tea, blackberry tea, and chamomile tea.)

Alcoholic beverages

General types of alcohol

Ale

technically a type of beer with a bitter flavor and higher alcoholic content. Very frequently mentioned separately, often noted as "local" or "special" ales

Beer

an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavored with hops. Both "small" and "heavy" beers exist in the Flanaess (lower and higher alcohol by volume)

Mead

an alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water. While most every mead brewed in a different place or by a different brewer tastes different, there are also "special brew" meads (which are more expensive).

Wine

including mulled and fortified wines; often noted as a "local" or "table" varieties

exmples of fortified wine incloude: port, sherry, and madeira.

Hard liquor

Spirits and liquors are commonly made by individual brewers, along with other alcoholic beverages. There are also large groups like the Free City Guild of Ostlers and Brewers.

• Brandy—distilled in many places, "local" and "special" varieties
• Rum
• Liqueur and fortified liqueur
• Whiskey

Unnamed or unbranded alcoholic beverages

The following are "types" of alcohol which are not given a specific "name". (i.e. similar to saying "German white wine" or similar)

• "Almond-flavored drink" from the Caliphate of Ekbir.
• Assassin berry wine—wine made from the fruit of the assassin vine.
• Berry wine
• Caporna wine
• Celanese wine—a fine, sweet wine with a heady aroma
• Celenese nectarwine—a "type" of drink. One rare variety is a "heady, effervescent brew of violet color" made of moonberries picked "when both moons are blue". (see also: "Gauglathiir" below, another variety)
• Celenese green wine—served cool or chilled (see also: "Gauglathiir" below)
• Celene ruby wine—contrasted by Iriador (see below)
• Dandelion wine—found in the Yeomanry and surrounding nations
• Elven mead—"The elves [of the Silverwood] are said to nurture certain trees here so that they [...] give a delicious sap that is the source of their much-sought elven mead." some types made with exotic wild honey (instead of sap/syrup); even liked by some dwarves
• Elven wine
• Feywine—fermented mixture of nectar created from juice of crushed flowers, honey, and a secret ingredient some claim is distilled moonbeams. compare with Elven moondrop (see below)
• Furyondian emerald pale wine
• Furyondian white wine—dry, crisp, and apple-fragranced wine (See also Ambiere, below)
• Galdafruit brandy—commonly made in many places; notably by the Toscor family of the Wild Coast
• Keoish brandy
• Keoish golden wine or Keoish amber wine
• Mandrake wine—an herbed wine, sometimes used as a sedative or sleeping draught.
• Perrenland black mead—notorious and thick
• Sundish lilac wine—also known as "Sunndi sweet violet wine"
• Sunndi fortified wine—a sweet wine fortified with brandy
• Tehn dessert wine
• Ulek violet sparkling wine
• Urnst brandy—special aged
• Urnst white wine
• Uskberry wine
• Velunian white wine

Named specialty drinks

The following are each a specific, named drinks found in the Flanaess.

The following includes both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

• Ambiere—Furyondy's premiere apple wine
• Bejl—hot, brewed blended-herb beverage from Adri, aka Sacred Grove, Elflord's Delight, or Citrine Zest
• Beory's Draught—"cloudy, mahogany-brown ale" brewed in Willend
• Claw wine—made by the Rist family who run the Snapping Line (inn) in Saltmarsh. It is made of lobster meat and potatoes, and "it is, to put it mildly, an acquired taste."
• Blastenbeer—home-brewed from herbal preparations of flora of the Adri by Gloria, hostelery proprietor in Eastfair. Famed throughout the city, especially dwarves.
• Elven Aleeian wine—made from deep-woods wild grapes; takes months to gather enough for even single batch
• Elven moondrop—produced only by an alchemist, made with fresh dew and moonlight compare with Feywine, (see above)
• Frinnecre—cider of "fruit juices and extracts" Commonly from Celene, Duchy of Ulek, and other southern Lortmil lands.
• Gauglathiir—Celene wintergreen-flavored "nectarwine"; emerald in color
• Gloria's blastenbeer—home-brewed at Gloria's hostelry in Eastfair, secret recipe of "herbal preparations made from flora of the Adri Forest"; "a murderously potent brew"
• Heathen—thick, sweet berry wine, made by dwarves of the Lone Heath
• Iriador—red wine from Celene; served chilled or room temp., dark and heavy, with fruity undertones; made specifically for human taste
• Kaffet—mountain-grown, roasted, ground beans brewed for bitter, hot drink from Zeif. (trans. of "coffee" via Swedish fr:Turkish/Arabic)
• Mist mash—"spirits" stronger than brandies or elixirs made in Hawkeen on the Mistmarsh.
• Old Peculiar—ale made at Peculiar Manor. Jet-black, heavy, and thick; "tastes like liquid peat", and no one has ever claimed to drink more than two pints.
• Orlane Special wine—brewed at the winery at the Inn of the Slumbering Serpent in Orlane
• Rentish schnapps
• Samberra—from Leastisle. "A bitter, dry spirit fermented from the juices of succulent plants."{cite dragon|271|75|A Return to Falcon's Bazaar|note=Noel Graham}}
• Shamarit—dry, blended Velunian white/blush wine; harvested after first frost in the Shamarit region of Veluna.
• Silaurey—aka "Greyhawk wine". Medium body, highly palatable cinnamon flavor, commonly made in the Cairn Hills; Drennn vintners considered superior
• Skryss—barley and whey beer popular amongst Thillonrians. Filling, with no hangover.
• Ulek Elixir—a liqueur
• Velunian fireamber wine
• Witch Queen's Cauldron—house ale of the Blue Dragon Inn in the City of Greyhawk.

Beverages in other sources

There are various beverages mentioned in the Gord the Rogue novels:

• Adri brandy—called "bad tasting stuff, thick and bitter". Antidote to the narcotic effects of "Flowers of Thratus Kaloid" narcotic vapor.
• Pomarj black wine—a bottled "rare, especially costly" drink (after the humanoid invasion of the Pomarj). This "inky" black wine tastes somewhat foul with a bitter aftertaste, and is also addictive. Though, the addictive "stuff they put in it" is unknown.

See also

See also: Foodstuffs

References

Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.

Topic	Type	Description	Product	Page/Card/Image
Bloodwine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Libris Mortis, D&D 3.5e	74, 75
Celene Ruby Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	14
Celene Ruby Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil	14
Celenese Nectarwine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return of the Eight	43
Celenese Nectarwine	Item	Beverage (wine),	WG6 Isle of the Ape	6
Keoish Amber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Dragon magazine #100	24
Keoish Amber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Night Arrant	172, 309
Keoish Golden Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	14
Keoish Golden Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil	14
Nectarwine	Item	Bevarage (wine),	The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions	3, 19, 20, 23
Pomarj, Black Wine of the	Item	Beverage (wine),	City of Hawks	201
Sunndi Sweet Violet Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions	65
Sunndi Sweet Violet Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Living Greyhawk, Living Onnwal Gazetteer, D&D 3.5e
Sunndi Sweet Violet Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return of the Eight	43
Sunndish Lilac Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	14
Sunndish Lilac Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil	14
Tenh Dessert Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions	65
Urnst White Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	14
Urnst White Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil	14
Velunian Fireamber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Dragon magazine #344	49, 50
Velunian Fireamber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God	23
Velunian Fireamber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	14
Velunian Fireamber Wine	Item	Beverage (wine),	T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil	14