Ale on Gor is similar to ale on Earth. It is stored in kegs. Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer. It has a deep gold color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from earth in the early years. It is traditionally served in a goblet or tankard.

"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

Bazi Tea is served in 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.

"...'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

Steps to the Bazi Tea Ceremony

It is an herbal beverage served hot and heavily sugared and traditionally served one tiny cup at a time, three cups in all, in rapid succession. Serve at the Master/Mistress's feet

#1-Check the hearth for boiling water then go to the servery.
#2- At the servery, get the porcelain teapot, and the bazi tea cups on the high shelf.
#3- Take the pot to the hearth to fill it, Allow the water to warm the pot, swirl it around to ensure proper warming of the pot. Pour the water out once warmed and refill with fresh boiling water.
#4- Return to the servery with the pot of water, and put in two or three pinches of leaves from the copper tin on the counter.
#5- In the first cup, place red sugars, yellow sugars in the second, and a mixture of red and yellow in the third. The cups are to be heavily sweetened, the next more sweet than the last.
#6- Place all items on the tray, and return to the Master/Mistress. Pour at their feet, so that they may see the contents, check the color and smell to make sure it's fully brewed. Let the tea brew before them, careful to make sure it is properly brewed. Pour the tea into the first sugared cup, lift to belly, heart, etc, offer above bowed head and outstretched arms.Pour second and third cups and serve each of them. Each cup, sweeter than the last, signifies past, present and future, speak accordingly in offering each one.

Blackwine

Black wine is earth coffee and sometimes served in clay bowls. It is a very strong brewed coffee not much unlike expresso. On Gor, it is commonly grown only in Thentis and is quite expensive. The beans were undoubtedly brought from earth. It is served from silver pots often kept warm on braziers. Many times, because it is so strong, it is served in tiny cups usually with added cream and sugars. If it is served without the cream and sugar, or black it is called 'second slave' 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, the Free wishes it black.

This is the red rich wine made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Like most wines it is bottled, kept in wineskins (or botas), or on occasion, flasks. Ar is famous for it's Ka-la-na bottlers. Ka-la-na is a plentiful, heady wine served in goblets or tankards.Sometimes it is diluted with warm water before serving and can be either sweet or dry. Other Men prefer to have it warmed over a fire in a copper bowl. Ka-la-na is also sometimes warmed over a fire, and spices added, this is like the mulled wines on Earth.

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.A sweet wine from the Ka-la-na fruit, available in sweet Red or dry White. This drink can be served room temperature (these botas can be found hanging in the servery) cold (in the coldroom) or over ice (in the coldroom ice barrel). Can also be heated if the Master/Mistress prefers. Served in a goblet, at the feet of a Master/Mistress unless a different vessel is specified.

Kal-da is brewed from 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 normally but can be served in goblets or any other vessel that is wished.
It is usually located in a copper kettle hanging over the firepit. Serve with slices and juices of fruits, such as tospit, larma and mulling spices are added on top, Serve in a footed bowl at Master/Mistress feet.

"Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted 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 (a poor grade of Ka-la-na was used in its brewing) then to any gustatory excellence."
Outlaw of Gor, page 76

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

Milk is obtained from the bosk or verr usually. It is used to make cheese, butter, etc. Since cold storage is at a premium, the bosk milk is often in powdered form but can also be found in cold storage for those so lucky to have it.

"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

Rence beer is brewed and drank by the Rencers. They obtain it from the 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."
Raiders of Gor, page 18

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. 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

Sul paga is an alcoholic beverage made from suls it is served in goblets or cups. Botas are located hanging in the servery, and also warm above the firepit

"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

"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 i might be conveniently carried on the shoulders, or over the back..."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 36

The beans for making chocolate were originally brought from Earth. The cocoa tree now grows in the tropics of Gor and the beans can be purchased.