A Recipe for you beer aficionados

 

 

COCK ALE

"Take 10 gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better; parboil the cock, flay him, and stamp him in a stone mortar until his bones are broken (you must gut him when you flay him).

Then, put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it five pounds of raisins of the sun – stoned; some blades of mace, and a few cloves.

Put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find the ale has been working, put the bag and ale together in vessel."

- from Charlie Papazian's "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing," and originally from "The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. Opened," 1677.