15: Malt Tonics - part 1

Delve into beer history with us at your peril! It’s part one of malt tonics and medicinal beers!

Christina talks to Lisa and Bean about malt tonics and the old-timey (or is it new-timey?) ways they were marketed to women, doctors, women doctors, the healthy, the sick, and everyone from tots to wrinklies. What went into a malt tonic, besides arsenic and old lace? Christina recounts a recipe she recreated from an old patent. Bean tries not to squirm too much at the retelling.

Beers featured in this episode:

• 3 Horses Malt Beverage (https://www.3horsesmalt.com/)
• Yellowbelly - Memberberries (https://yellowbellybeer.ie/ - no longer in production)
• Ballykilcavan - Brickyard Red (https://www.ballykilcavan.com/beers.html)

Links and References: 

• https://drexel.edu/legacy-center/blog/overview/2009/may/from-the-collections-drugs/
• https://braciatrix.com/2020/01/14/so-i-made-a-malt-tonic/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/acorus-calamus
• https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-patent-medicines/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p095dkp7
• https://www.guinness-nigeria.com/our-brands/brand-profiles/malta-guinness/#:~:text=Non%20alcoholic%2C%20adult%2C%20premium%20soft,energy%20that%20fuels%20your%20greatness.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_beer

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