ALE:

This drink is closer to a larger than to an ale or Earth beer. It is deep golden colour with a frothy head. It is brewed from grains and hops.

kept in wooden kegs/cask with a tap, which is kept in a cool room or in a camp in a cold pit.

Severed in a Tankard. Served cool.

"The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons. Over this he then closed his fist. It was the sign of the hammer, the sign of Thor. The tankard then, with two great bronze handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. It was the victory ale."
Marauders of Gor, p 82
 

ALE - RENCE:
This is similar to Japanese sake. It is drawn from a spigot cask; served room temperature in a tankard or mug
 

BAZI TEA:

A herbal tea made with green tea leaves. Made by adding three pinches of tea leaves to boiling water as this drink is served hot.

Green tea leaves or kept in a tin or chest on the servery counter/table.

Served in a mug. By adding boiling water to three pinches of tea strained through a clean rep cloth."' 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 tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured."
Tribesmen of Gor page 139.

"With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure."
Tribesmen of Gor page 89

"There was a cup and a pitcher of Bazi tea on the counter. Bazi tea is a common beverage of Gor. Many Goreans are fond of it."
Kajira of Gor page 332.

**Please note: There is NO instance of salt being added to bazi tea during a serve!!
 

BLACKWINE:

Like earths coffee, it is made from ground blackwine beans. It is very expensive and bitter tasting. It is served warm or hot.

It can be served in two ways

First slave: which is with bosk cream/milk and sugar.
Second slave: which is black.

Kept warming in a large kettle over the fires. To make a kettle of blackwine a girl would grind the beans kept in the chilling room add boiling water and brew it.

Served in: mugs or small cups or goblets.
"On the tray, too was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamelled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers."
Explorers of Gor, p 10

"The two slaves, their chains removed, now returned, and began to serve the black wine. The voluptuous slave of Aemilianus, whom he had not yet named, placed the tiny silver cups, on small stands, before us. The lovely little slave in bluish gauze, whom he had not yet named, holding the narrow spouted, silver pouring vessel in a heavy cloth, in narrow, tiny streams, into the small cups. She poured into the cups only the amount that would be compatible with the assorted sugars and creams which the guest might desire, if any, these being added in, and stirred, if, and as, pertinent, by Aemilianus' slave, who directed the serving."
Guardsman of Gor page 244.

"'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is away of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams of sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the 'second slave,' the first being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served."
Guardsman of Gor page 24.

She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray on the table. With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure. She then held the cup to the side of her cheek, testing its temperature; Ibn Saran glanced at her; she, looking at him, timidly kissed the side of the cup and placed it before him. Then, her head down, she withdrew.
Tribesmen of Gor Book 10 Page 89

She rose swiftly to her feet. She knelt, head down, before me. She poured, carefully, the hot, black beverage into the tiny red cup. I dismissed her.
Tribesmen of Gor Book 10 Page 105
 

BREEDING WINE / SECOND WINE:

Made from extract of teslik plant, a sweet pleasant tasting wine. Used to counteract the affects of slave wine should a Master wish to breed his girl.

Kept in the cool room.

Served in a goblet.
 

CHO:

Made from a mixture of half chocolate and half hot paga with whipped cream. Served at perfect temperature. (covers hot and warm). Solid (shaved with a sharp stone) and powdered chocolate stored.

Stored in a tin kept on the servery counter or table. Paga is in a kettle over the fire.
Served in a cup, bowl or a mug.
 

CHOCOLATE:
shaved or powdered is added to hot milk to make chocolate.

Kept in a tin on the servery counter or table.

Served in a cup, bowl or mug.

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, ultimately 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, p 61
 

COSIAN WINE:

sweet red wine, very potent. Made from imported fruits.

Stored in large casks/kegs in the cold room.

Served warm or chilled in a goblet

It was Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos..."
Fighting Slave of Gor, p 306

"He had brought, too, paga, Cosian wine, and water."
Rogue of Gor, P 257
 

FALARIAN WINE:
Very rare expensive wine who’s existence is only rumoured among collectors. Never serve unless payment or permission to do so is made by the owner.

Stored in a locked cabinet in the cold room.

Served in goblets.
Serve me wine.” I said.

She did so, kneeling before me, head down, handing me the black, red-trimmed wine crater, that of the master, as had Aphris to Kamchak. I drank.
When I had finished I set the wine crater aside and looked on the girl.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 293
 

FERMENTED MILK:

Thick fermented curds of milk (alcoholic)

Stored in botas.

Served in mug, bowl

"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, p 28
 

FLAVOURED ICE:

"Free women, here and there, were delicately putting titbits beneath their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth."
Assassins of Gor, p 141
 

HERBAL / MEDICINAL TEA:


there are various varieties of these prepared by Tribal Medicine Healers from the herb gardens of the tribes of Gor.

Prepared herbs are stored in cases /tins on the server counter/ table. They are measured and placed in silk twists. Some silk twists are stored in the medical supplies. They are dropped into hot boiling water and steeped.

Served in cups or mugs.
 

ICE:

Harvested every winter from the Kailla River and imported from the North.
Stored in chilling chests in chunks in the cool room.
Use a sharp stone or shell to shave of ice.
 

JUICE:
A Gorean fruit juice of tospit, lama, red fruit, and others.

Stored in a jug in the cold room.

Served in goblets, cold. Garnish with fruit slices or mint.

"I purchased some larma juice for a tarsk bit. "Is it cool?" I asked. "Yes," she said."
Mercenaries of Gor, p 257
 

KA-LA-NA:

A red alcoholic drink, this wine is fermented from the fruit of the Kalana Tree.

Stored in Botas in the cold room or bottles on the wine rack or from a kettle kept warm over the fire..

Served either chilled or warm. Or mulled (by adding some spices) served in goblets, or tankards.

"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, p 168

"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, p 151

"I do not wish to come home with you now, she said lightly, a bit of kalana spilling from the silver goblet she held."
Rogue of Gor page 157.

"I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Kalana, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire."
Captive of Gor page 331.
 

KALDA:

A mixture of cheap watered down ka-la-na wine mixed with mulling spices and citrus juice.

Made by taking warm ka-la-na from the kettle over the fire, and juice from the cold room, spices from the tin on the counter or table in the servery. Heated in a brewing pot over the fire. Garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit.

Served in bowls, cups or mugs. It is a hot drink.

"Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted Ka-la-na wine, mixed with citrus juices and stinging spices."
Outlaw of Gor, p 76

"I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the proprietor 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 occasion, 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, p 78

"I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-La-Na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl. I swirled, slowly, the wine in the wine crater. I saw my reflection in the redness, the blondness in my hair, dark wine in the wine, and the collar, with its bells, about my throat. I did not know how he cared for his wine, for some men of Treve wish it warm, almost hot."
Captive of Gor pages 331-2.

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. She also brought a black, red-trimmed wine crater from the isle of Cos.
“May I serve you?” she asked.
Kamchak’s eyes glinted. “Yes,” he said.
She poured wine into the crater and replaced the bottle. Kamchak had watched her hands very carefully. She had had to break the seal on the bottle to open it. The crater had been upside down when she had picked it up. If she had poisoned the wine she had certainly done so deftly.
Then she knelt before him in the position of the Pleasure Slave and, head down, arms extended, offered him the crater.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 151
 

LIANA VINE:

a rainforest plant a source of drinking water.
 

MILK:

Creamy white liquid milk from the Bosk or Verr.

Stored in pitchers in the cool room.

Severed cold in a goblet or warmed in a brewing pot and served hot in a mug or bowl.

“When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk."
Nomads of Gor page 139
 

MILK - SAND KAIILA
This milk is reddish and salty. It is high in ferrous sulphate and comes from the sand kaiila
 

MEAD:

A fermented sweet honey, water and spice drink. Thick golden colour, potent, imported from north Torvordlanders.

Stored in botas or casks in the cold room.

Served in a horn or tankard cool.

"Here Jarl," said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland, brewed from fermented honey, thick and sweet."
Marauders of Gor, p 90
 

MERLOT:

A wine, made of grapes

Stored in botas or bottles on the wine rack in the cold room. Or bottles on the counter in the servery.

Served in goblets, can be served chilled or room temperature.

“Serve him wine,” said he, “or you will be stripped and thrown into a pen of male slaves.”
The girl turned and withdrew, then approached again, climbing the stairs, delicately, as though timidly, head down. Then she leaned forward, bending her knees slightly, her body graceful, and spoke, her voice a whisper in my ear, an invitation, “Wine, Master?” as though offering not wine, but herself. In a large house, with various slave girls, it is thought only an act of courtesy on the part of a host to permit a guest the use of one of the girls for the evening. Each of the girls considered eligible for this service, at one time or another during the evening, will approach the guest and offer him wine. His choice is indicated by the one from whom he accepts wine.
I looked at the girl. Her eyes met mine, softly. Her lips were slightly parted. “Wine, Master?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said, “I will have wine.”
She poured the diluted wine into my cup, bowed her head and with a shy smile, backed gracefully down the stairs behind me, then turned and hurried away.
Assassin of Gor Book 5 Page 89
 

PAGE, SA:

Is a potent golden alcoholic liquid brewed from sa-tarna grain and described as hot and firey.

Kept in botas or casks in cold room or in a kettle over the fire.

Can be served in almost anything but mostly bowls.

"She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kalanthro... before me."
Renegades of Go, p 71

"The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought."
Vagabonds of Gor page 16.

"I have drunk too much of the fermented brew, concocted with fiendish skill from the yellow grain, 'Sa tarna,' and called 'Pagar-Sa-Tarna,' 'Pleasure of the Life-Daughter,' but almost always 'Paga' for short."
Tarsnman of Gor page 59.

I observed Inge filling the paga goblet of one of the huntsmen. She knelt closer to him than she needed to. Her lips were parted. Her eyes shone. Her hands, slightly, shook on the paga bottle. Rena knelt to one side. She watched her huntsman, gnawing the meat from a great bone. I could see that she was eager to leap up to serve him, should he but speak to her.
Captive of Gor Book 7 Page 300


She turned about. She nearly spilled the paga, trembling. It was well for her that she did not spill it.
Slowly, alone, a paga slave, naked and collared, she approached my table.
She then knelt there, before me.
“Press the cup to your belly,” I told her.
She did so. She then held it there, in both hands. “Paga, Master?” she whispered.
“Yes,” I said.
She sobbed.
“Kiss the cup,” I told her.
She lifted the metal cup from her belly and, turning her head to the side, pressed her lips against it. She then kissed it. She then, her knees wide, her arms extended to me, her head down, between her arms, proffered the paga to me. “Your paga, Master,” she whispered.
“Use now to me,” I said, “the second of the two formulas, personalized, which you earlier used to me, when you had so foolishly thought yourself a free woman.”
“I am Evelyn,” she said. “I serve you, naked and collared. Take me later to the alcove. I beg to be taught my slavery.”
“Very well,” I said.
She knelt back, about a yard from the table. I looked at her. I sipped the paga.
Explorers of Gor Book 13 Page 172
 

PAGA, SUL:

Clear potently alcoholic liquid distilled from suls.

Kept in botas, casks/ kegs in the cold room or in a kettle warming over the fire.

Served in goblets, bowls and mugs. Served warm (room temp, chilled or hot)

"Sul paga is, when distilled, though the Sul itself is yellow, as clear as water. The Sul is a tuberous root of the Sul plant, it is a staple. The still, with its tanks and pipes, lay within the village, that of the 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 held my head back and forced me to swallow a mouthful. In moments things had gone black, and I feel unconscious. I had awakened only this morning, ill, miserable, with a splitting headache."
Slave Girl of Gor page 134.
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 Book 11 Page 134
 

PALM WINE:

sweet wine from Schendi, made from the palm of the Tahair Oasis.

Stored in bottles on the wine rack it the cold room

Served in goblets cold.

My recommendation," said Ayari, "would be to stab him when he is not looking, or perhaps to poison his palm wine."
-- page 429, Explorers of Gor

I served the food, and poured the wines, and kept their goblets filled, remaining as much in the background as possible.
They talked of hunting, and war, and of the northern forests, as though I were not there.
Sometimes Verna would say, “Drink,” and I would pour wine into her goblet, saying, “Yes, Mistress,” and sometimes Rask of Treve would command me, saying “Drink,” and I would then, similarly, serve him, saying “Yes, Master.”
He extended his goblet to me. “Drink,” he said, offering me the cup.
I looked at the rim of the cup. I shook with terror. “A slave girl dares not touch with her lips the rim of that cup which has been touched with the lips of her master,” I whispered.
Captive of Gor Book 7 Page 302
 

SLAVE WINE:


A black bitter concentrated brew from a very bitter sip root. Its is the Gorean contraceptive. Its affects last longer than a Gorean month. In a year or more often requiring a releaser of it remission this is called a breeding wine or second wine.

Served in a goblet.
Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effect lasts 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.
-- pages 23-24, Marauders of Gor

She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and, indeed, the effect of the sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine." When this is administered she usually knows that she has been selected for crossing with a handsome male slave.
-- page 319, Blood Brothers of Gor
 

SPRING WATER:
Cold drinking water.

Stored in botas in the cold room

Served in goblets.

“Taphris,” said Barus, sharply.
“Yes, Master!” she said, startled.
“Bring water,” he said.
“Yes, Master,” she said. She got to her feet and went to the side of the shed, where the water bucket was placed, to get the yellow, half-gourd dipper.
We watched her.
She filled the half-gourd dipper.
“Your drink, Master,” said Taphris.
He looked at her and, suddenly, frightened, she fell to her knees. She put her head down. She pressed the yellow, rough-skinned half-gourd, brimming with water, deep into her belly. Then she lifted the yellow side of the gourd to her lips and, lingeringly, turning her head, kissed it; then she lifted it to him with both hands, her head down between her extended arms.
Fighting Slave of Gor Book 14 Page 261

“Serve Jason water,” he cried.
“Jason!” she cried.
He handed her the cup formed from the yellow half-gourd. She looked down at it, clutched in her hands. “Do you wish me to repeat a command?” he asked.

“She made certain her knees were widely spread in the sand, and then she extended her arms, her head down, between them, the bowl held out to our young guest. "Water, captor?'' she inquired.
Vagabonds of Gor Book 23 Page 352
 

TA-WINE:

Light wine from the Cosian Ta-grapes.

Stored in bottles on the rack wine in the cold room and on the counter in the servery.
Can be warmed by pouring the desired amount into a small warming kettle and placed over the fire.

Served in a Goblet. Served room temperature, hot or cold.

It was Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos..."
Fighting Slave of Gor, p 306

"He had brought, too, paga, Cosian wine, and water."
Rogue of Gor, P 257
 

TURIAN WINE:

Thick sweet wine.

Stored in botas or bottles in the cold room

Served in goblet either room temperature or cold.

"She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liquor from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it."
Explorers of Gor, p 10

"I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavoured and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprints on their surface."
Nomads of Gor page 94.
 

TURIAN LIQUEUR:

Distilled or brewed wines flavoured with herbs or spices, thick and sweet.

Stored in bottles in the cold room on the wine rack.

Served in small tiny coloured glasses, or goblets, or decorated clay cups.
sipped a Turian liqueur.
-- page 259, Guardsman of Gor

She withdrew, head down. She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was a small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from the distant Turia, the Ar of the South, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. On the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamelled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers.
page 10, Explorers of Gor
 

WINE:

Clear fermented alcoholic beverages made from grapes and various fruits. Sweet or dry.

Stored in bottles or flagons in the cold room

Served in goblets chilled.


"The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served..."
Fighting Slave of Gor, p 276

"When wine is drunk with Gorean meals, at home, incidentally, it is almost always diluted, mixed with water in a crater. At a party of convivial supper the host, or elected feast master, usually determines the proportions of water to wine. Unmixed wine, of course, may be drunk, for example at the parties of young men, at which might appear dancers, flute slaves and such. Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation, are very strong, often having an alcohol content by volume of forty to fifty percent."
Renegades of Gor page 70.

At the end of her dance, she is given a cup of wine, but she may not drink. She approaches the young man and kneels before him, her knees in the dictated position of the Pleasure Slave, and, head down, she proffers the wine to him. He drinks.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Page 53

“Serve me wine,” he said.
I, carrying the wine crater, rose to my feet and approached him. I then knelt before him, with a rustle of slave bells, in the position of the pleasure slave. I put my head down and, with both hands, extending my arms to him, held forth the wine crater. “I offer you wine, Master,” I said.
He took the wine, and I watched, in terror. He sipped it, and smiled. I nearly fainted. I would not be beaten.
Captive of Gor Book 7 Page 332

Marlenus and I watched her pour the wine. She poured it differently than she had before. She knelt, her head down, the hair forward. I could see it in her shoulders. She, a slave girl, poured wine for masters. That she was owned was revealed, beautifully, in her serving.
Hunter of Gor Book 8 Page 167