ALE

Ale on Gor seems very similar to ale on Earth. It is stored in kegs
and served in tankards.

"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."

Marauders of Gor, page 82

"Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the
long fire, on the iron spits. Splendid was the quality of the ale
at the tables of the Blue Tooth..."

Marauders of Gor, page 191

" 'The Forkbeard greets you!' shouted Ivar. I blinked. The hall was
light. I had not understood it to be so large. At the tables, lifting
ale and knives to the Forkbeard were more than a thousand men."

Marauders of Gor, page 194

BAZI TEA

Bazi Tea is drunk from three small cups.It is heavily sugared.
The nomads of the Tahari prize bazi tea and import it in great
quantity,along with Sa-Tarna meal.

"In turn, from the oases, the nomads receive, most importantly,
Sa-Tarna grain and the Bazi Tea."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

"From time to time the caravan stopped and, boiling water over
tiny fires, we made tea."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 72

"Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and highly
sugared. It gives strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them,
by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk, three
small cups at a time, and carefully measured."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 38

"...'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."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 139

BLACK WINE

Black wine much stronger than earth coffee is served in very small doses
in small cups or bowls...Most take it with creams and sugars for it is so
strong and bitter... On Gor, it is commonly grown only in Thentis and is
quite expensive. The beans were undoubtedly brought from earth.

IN the books, in large cities or large homes the serve of black wine is
done by two slaves...from which we get the terms "First slave" {with cream
and sugar}It is served from silver pots often kept warm on braziers.

"Second slave"is served black because, traditionally, the first slave
girl prepares the cups with the creams and sugars and the second slave
pours the black wine. Second slave means that the first slave need not
add the cream and sugar.

Online often times only one slave serves the black wine... will still
be asked to serve it "First or Second slave" First being with cream and
sugar... Second being black...

Quotes:

"I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. It is drunk in Thentis,
but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other Gorean cities. Then
I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls, It was extremely strong,
and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee."

-Assassin of Gor, page 106

"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."

-Beasts of Gor, page 21

"Black wine, except in the vicinity of Thentis, where most of it is
grown on the slopes of the Thentis range, is quite expensive."

-Guardsman of Gor, pages 244-245

"Thentis does not trade the beans for black wine. I have heard of a cup
of black wine in Ar, some years ago, selling for a silver eighty piece.
Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes.."

-Assassin of Gor, page 107

"Originally, doubtless beans were brought from Earth, much as certain
other seeds, and silk worms and such."

-Assassin of Gor, page 107

"From one side, a slave girl, barefoot, .....fled to him, with the
tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine... She knelt,
replenishing the drink."

-Tribesmen of Gor, page 88

CHOCOLATE

The beans for making chocolate were no doubt originally brought
from Earth. The cacao tree now grows in the tropics of Gor and
the beans can be purchased.

"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, ulitmately
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."

Kajira of Gor, page 61

FERMENTED MILK CURDS

"By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on his hips, dancing
and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds,dancing,
according to Kamchak, to please the sky."

Nomads of Gor, page 28

KA-LA-NA

Red Wine plentiful delicious stored in bottles or botas of verr skin
served in any drinking vessel ... served warm chilled or room temperature
depending on likes of the Free being served... Best vintage brewed in
City of AR its vineyards are famous across whole planet..."Yes! It would
be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na..."

Tarnsman of Gor, page 79

"...drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of
the Ka-la-na tree"

Tarnsman of Gor, page 68

"...kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing
the fermented red liquid across the stone surface "

Tarnsman of Gor, page79

"The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..."

Captive of Gor, page 250

"Aphris got up and fetched not a skin, but a bottle, of wine,
Ka-la-na wine, from the Ka-la-na orchards of great Ar itself..."

Nomads of Gor, page 15

"I went to his locker near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask;
taking a long draught myself and then shoving it into his hands.
He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his hand across his beard,
stained with the red juice of the fermented drink."

Tarnsman of Gor, page 168

"...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."

Captive of Gor, page 114

KAL-DA

Kal-da is brewed from cheap Ka-la-na wine, citrus juice and spices
in large pots/kettles and kept hot over the fire. It is served in
smaller pots or tankards.

"Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted cheaper
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
then to any gustatory excellence."

Outlaw of Gor, page 76

"I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the propietor 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 ocassion, 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."

Outlaw of Gor, page 78

"Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the
counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last
empty and cold."

Outlaw of Gor, page 80

LIQUEURS

"It is time for the liqueurs, slave," I told her "Yes, Master," she
whispered. "Ah," said Glyco."The liqueurs!" First from the kitchen,
bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianuus. Behind her,
too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment both
were derferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired
girl well set off the the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored
glasses and bottles upon it."

Guardsman of Gor, page 254

MEAD

Mead is brewed from fermented honey and is sweet. It is often preferred
over paga by the men of Torvoldsland. It is drank from tankards or large
drinking horns.

"In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and
water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga."

Vagabonds of Gor, page 16

"Here Jarl," said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the
mead of Torvoldsland, brewed from fermented, honey, thick and sweet."

Marauders of Gor, page 90

"Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with the mead, from the
heavy hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried."

Marauders of Gor, page 78

"Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the
long fire, on the iron spits. Splendid was the quality of the ale at
the tables of the Blue Tooth. Sweet and strong was the mead."

Marauders of Gor, page 191

"I held up the large drinking horn of the north."
"There is no way for this to stand upright," I said to him, puzzled.
He threw back his head again and roared once more with laughter.
"If you cannot drain it,' he said, 'give it to another!"
I threw back my head and drained the horn."

Marauders of Gor, page 89

MILK

Milk is obtained from the bosk or verr. Used to make cheese, butter, etc.
Since cold storage is at a premium, the bosk milk is often in powdered form.

" The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong."

Savages of Gor, page 60

"I heard the lowing of the milk bosk from among the wagons."

Nomads of Gor, page 27

"When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill,and drank down,
too, a flagon of bosk milk..."

Nomads of Gor, page 139

"Too I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk.
We had finished the creams last night."

Guardsman of Gor, page 295

"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."

Guardsman of Gor, page 295

PAGA

Pagar Sa-Tarna is a potent brewed beverage made from the fermented
yellow grains of the sa-tarna plant. It is stored in many different
types of containers depending on the location and convenience of such;
verrskin botas used mainly for traveling, sealed bottles seemingly of
varying sizes, and large vats from which the drink can be dipped. It can
be served, poured from the above mentioned bottles and botas or from a
two handled serving vessel carried on a strap about a slave's shoulder,
or even directly from the large vat mentioned earlier. It can be served
in just about any available container including cups, fancy goblets,
plain metal goblets, glasses and kantharos or footed-bowls. The Free may
request it served at various temperatures including warm and even hot

"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."

Outlaw of Gor, page 74

"He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of Paga, from which I took a
long swig, then hurled it contemptously back into his arms. In a moment
he had taken flight again, the bag of Paga flying behind him, dangling
from its long straps."

Tarnsman of Gor, page 78

"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."

Raiders of Gor, page 105

"I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the
slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took
in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a
pouring sling..."

Raiders of Gor, page 111

"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."

Beasts of Gor, page 371

RENCE BEER

Rence beer is brewed and drank by the Rencers. They obtain it from the
pith (the center of the stem) of the rence plants.

"At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and
fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
Kept in large Gourds"

Raiders of Gor, page 18

"I had also been used to carry the heavy kettles of rence beer
from the various islands to the place of feasting."

Raiders of Gor, page 41

"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of
roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence
cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of
rence beer."

Raiders Gor, page 44

SLAVE WINE/BREEDING WINE

Slave wine is a bitter black drink, given to slave girls as a
contraceptive. The effects of the slave wine last for over a Gorean
month {in later books more developed slave wine would last indefinitely
or till the releaser is given. The breeding wine (or releaser) is given
to the slave girl only if her master wishes to breed her. The breeding
wine supposedly tastes quite good.

"Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effects last for more
than a Gorean month. I did not wish the females to conceive. A female
slave is taken off the slave wine only when it is her master's intention
to breed her.

Marauders of Gor, pages 23-24

"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."

Marauders of Gor pages 83-84

" 'Have you had your slave wine?' asked Ina. 'Yes,' I said. This is not
really a wine, or an alcoholic beverage. It is called 'slave wine,' I
think, for the amusement of the Masters. It is extremely bitter. One
draught of the substance is reputed to last until the administration of an
appropriate 'releaser.'" doses of this foul stuff are usually administered
to female slaves at regular intervals, usually once or twice a year."
" 'The time to worry,' said Ina, 'is if they decide to make you a
breeding slave.' I nodded. 'You must then drink the releaser,' she said.
I nodded numbly. 'I have been told it is quite good,' she said." "Slave
wine makes sense in a slave-holding culture such as Gor. The breeding of
slaves, like any sort of domestic animals, and particularly valuable ones,
is carefully controlled. As a slave, of course, I could be bred, or
crossed, when, and however, my master might see fit. It is the same as
with other animals."

Dancer of Gor, pages 175-175

SUL-PAGA

Sul paga is an alcoholic beverage made from suls it is served
in goblets or cups.

"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."

Slave Girl of Gor, page 134

"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."

Slave Girl of Gor, page 134

"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."

Slave Girl of Gor, page 414

WATER

"He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy, grinning up at me, the
verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups, a dozen of them, attached
to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and clinking. Without removing
the bag from his shoulder, he filled the cup the water flowed into the cup
between a tiny vent-and-spigot device, which wastes little water, by
reducing spillage, which was tied in and waxed into a hole in the front
left foreleg of the verrskin. The skins are carefully stripped and any
rents are sewed up, the seams coated with wax. When the whole skin is
thoroughly cleaned of filth and hair, straps are fastened to it, so that
it might be conveniently carried on the shoulders, or over the back..."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 36

WINES

Ka-la-na, though plentiful, is not the only wine available on Gor. Both
red and white wines are served , depending on the meal. The wines are
sometimes mixed with water, due to their potency. Ta wine, made from Ta
Grapes comes from the city of Cos. Turia also exports wines to other
regions of Gor. Turian wines are noted as being very sweet. These wines
come in bottles and are generally served in goblets or sometimes, tankards.

"In a Gorean supper in a house of wealth, in the course of the supper,
with varied courses, eight to ten wines might be served, each suitably
and congruously matched with respect to texture and bouquet not only to
one another but to the accompanying portions of food."

Fight Slave of Gor, page 277

"Wine, incidentally, is often mixed with water in Gorean homes.
This is primarily because of the potency of many Gorean wines."

Guardsman of Gor, page 235

"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."

Fighting Slave of Gor, page 306

"...hot Bazi tea, sugared, and later, Turian wine."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

"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."

Nomads of Gor, pages 83-84

"One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines,
Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the
terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and drys, from distant Ar."

Tribesmen of Gor, page 213

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