Gorean ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer, a deep gold in colour, brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from Earth in the early years, served in a tankard. Stored in kegs kneeling at a Masters feet The Folkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been the measure of five gallones.
(Mauraders of Gor page 82)
Beer, Rence steeped and fermented from the pith, rarely found outside Rence islands, in a tankard or mug served from gourd flagons, and then taken to Masters feet. At such times as there is drinking of rence beet, steeped, boiled and fermented fromt he crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
(Raiders of Gor page 18)
I have also been used to carrying the heavy kettles of rence beer from various islands to the place of feasting.
(Raiders of Gor page 41)
I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porrides, and gourd flagons many times replenished, of rence beer.
(Raiders of Gor page 41)
Bazi Tea
In turn from the Oasis, the Nomands recieve, most importantly, Sa-Tarna grain and the Bazi Tea.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 37)
Tea is extremely important to the Nomads. It is served hot and highly sugared. It gives strength then, in vitue of the sugar, and cools them, by making htem sweet, as well as stimulates them. It is drunk in three small cups at a time, carefully measured.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 38)
From time to time the caravan stopped and, boild water over tiny fires, we made tea.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 72)
"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)
Blackwine
From one side, a slave girl, barefoot, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing black wine. She knelt replenishing the drink.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 88)
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 beverages after each measure. She then held the cup to the side of her cheek, testing its temperature; Iban Saran glanced at her, she, looking at him, timidly kissed the side of the cup and placed it before him.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 88)
I heard of blackwine, but had never had any. It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being drunk in other Gorean cities. Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clayed bowls. It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakenbly, it was coffee.
(Assassins of Gor page 106)
Thentis does not trade the beans of blackwine. I have heard of a cup of blackwine in Ar, some years ago, selling for a silver eighty piece. Even in Thentis blackwine is used commonly only in High Caste Homes.
(Assassins of gor page 107)
Originally, doubtless beans were brought from Earth, much as certain other seeds and silk worms and such.
(Assassins of gor page 107)
He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot blackwine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards.
(Beasts of gor page 20)
I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot blackwine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. This blackwine is 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, it is quite expensive. I decided I might care to taste the steaming blackwine. I lifted my finger. The girl in whose charge was she silver vessel, filled with blackwine, knelt before the tiny braizer, on which it sat, retaining its warmth. She rose swiftly to her feet. She knelt, head down, before me. She poured carefully, the hot, black beverages into the tiny red cup. I dismissed her.
(Guardsmen of Gor page 244 and 245)
Second slave, I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is in a way of indicating that I would take blackwine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the 'second slave', first slave being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the order and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one being served. The expression 'second slave', incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's blackwine, even if only one girl is serving.
(Guardsmen of Gor page 245)
I lifted the tiny silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the blackwine. It's strength and bitternees are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, only a drop or a few drops at a time.. Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars I drank it without creams or sugars, perhaps, for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and the blackwine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarecly wetting my lips, I too, would surely have had recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served.
(Guardsmen of Gor page 247)
Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powerdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have lasted the night. If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market.
(Guardsmen of Gor page 295)
Breeding Wine
A beverage made from the teslik plant, counteracts the contraceptive effect of slave wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called second wine. This would be served to a girl by her Master in the event she is to be bred with a handsome male slave. Such breeding is done with both male and female slaves hooded so that they may not see each other. Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effects last from more than a Gorean month. I did not wish the female to concieve. A female slave is taken off the slave wine only when it is her Master's intention to breed her.
(Mauraders of Gor page 23 and 24)
From the spout of 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 Folkbeard. She lifted it to her lips, and tasted it. She closed her eyes and lifted it to her face. It is too bitter she wept. One by one, the prizes of Ivar Folkbeard, even the rich, proud Aelgifu, were forced to down the slave wine.
(Mauraders of Gor page 83 and 84)
"Have you had your slave wine?" asked Ina. "Yes," I said. This is not really 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 is reputed to last until the administration of of an appropriate 'releaser' of this foul stuff is usually administored to the female slaves at regular intrevals, 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 particullary 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 page 175 and 176)
Chocolate
This drink, very expensive and very rarely served, is made from beans brought back from one of the earlier Voyages of Acquisitions, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. Generally, it is served only in higher class establishments. Served hot and from bowls or mugs. "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 the Cosican merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics.
(Kajira of Gor page 61)
Falarian Wine
Falarion Wine is an exquisitie wine, rare, expensive, it would pay the cost of a city, it is rumoured to be owned by collectors only. Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine rumoured only among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city. She, of course, would test this. She, though, only a slave would choose to sip it.
(Mercenaries of Gor page 158)
Fermented Milk Curds
Fermented milk curds is a traditional alcoholic beverage of the Tuchuks, made from bosk milk and very potent. Tuchuks drinks served in bowls at Masters feet. By one fire I could see the 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
Ka-la-na is a potent red wine, made from the fruit of ka-la-na; served how they wish to order it. Warmed or hot Ka-la-na is heated in pots and served in Gorean enamled trimmed clay bowls, called a 'crater', chilled Ka-la-na is served in a goblet, is known to have aphrodesiac effection on females.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 79)
Kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 79)
I went to his locker near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask; taking a long draught myself then shoving it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with red juice of the fermented drink.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 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 Ar itself.
(Nomads of Gor page 15)
A small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket. I had never tasted so rich and delicate 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 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)
I turned, and among the furnishing of the tent, found the 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. Again, I took the bowl from the fire. It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to do so. I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-rimmed wine crater.
(Captive of Gor page 331 and 332)
Kal-da
Kal-da made from Ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices and spiced, served hot, in a bowl, akin to Earth's sangria.
Mead
"Here, Jarl", said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Trovoldsland, brewed from fermented honey, thick and sweet.
(Mauraders of Gor page 90)
Mead beverage of the Northlands made from fermented honey, , water, spice; served in a horn at Masters feet. In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water and often spices and such, tend to be favoured over paga.
(Vagabonds of Gor page 16)
Milk
I heard the lowing of the milk bosks from among the wagons.
(Nomads of Gor page 27)
When the met was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk.
(Nomads of Gor page 139)
The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong.
(Savages of Gor page 60)
Mulled Ka-la-na
Heated Ka-la-na with mulled spices. Usually garnished with a piece of Ka-la-na fruit or tospit, served in a goblet.
(Captives of Gor page 331)
Paga
I decided, if worse, 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, unobstrusively 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.
(Outlaws of Gor page 74)
Sul-Paga
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 Tubuk'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)
Turian Liquor
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 fingerprint on their surface.
(Nomads of Gor page 83 and 84)
Turian Liquor is a sweet liquor, thick, likened to desset wines or liquor of earh found in Turia. "Is time for the liqueuors, slave", I told her. "Yes, Master", she whispered. "Ah", said Glyco. "The liqueuors!" First from the kitchen, bearing her tray came the voluptous slave of Aemilianous. Behind her, too, with her tray, came the dark-haired slave. In a moment both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the metal of the tray, and the small multicoloured glasses and bottles upon it.
(Guardsmen of Gor page 254)
Ta Wine
One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us wine, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweet, and dry, from distant Ar.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 213)