A question for the brew goddesses

I’m a huge fan of reader questions, and once-in-a-while a question comes up that has to go out to the broader community. Here is one such question:

From Vanessa

I’ve been brewing shop bought syrup beer kits for past couple of months, and although my hubby assures me they taste good, I want to move on and concoct my own brews now. Having discovered that way back in the Medieval times, women were brewsters, I just wondered if any one out there had a recipe that captured as near as possible the essence of what a Medieval ale would be like.

First, let me applaud your efforts to brew using beer kits in order to gain confidence and knowledge for moving to all-grain brewing. I think you’ll find it very rewarding.

Here is at least one decent resource on Medieval English Ales, but I’d love to hear from some of the other brewing ladies out there. What do you say Jen, Colleen, Sara?

Prost,

GG