Episode 13 - Sacred Brewing and Circular Time: A honey-sweet conversation with Heather Wolf

The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast

03/26/22 • 70 min

Brewing, folk arts, circular time, fermentation, and revitalizing regenerative cultures.... we delve into the magic and complexity of brewing with herbalist, singer and folk artist Heather Wolf.
About our conversation partner, Heather Wolf:
Heather Wolf is an herbal brewess, folk herbalist, teacher, singer & performing artist from an island in the Salish Sea. Her work is devoted to reviving folk wisdom traditions, and a remembrance of our ancestral heritage and sacred relationships. With decades of study and craft of herbal brewing traditions, Heather most recently launched The Brewess Underground, a private brew club centering on dry herbal meads and botanical honey liqueurs, released on the Equinoxes and Solstices.

Her herbal brews, including her honey-kombuchas, have been much beloved throughout the American Northwest. In addition to brewing, she is re-learning her own Sephardic Jewish & British Isles ancestral songlines and partaking in the revitalizing of folk traditions. She writes of folk traditions, "Folk wisdom is carried by the collective, belongs to the whole, is the vital foundation of every healthy culture. These arts relate us directly with our own beings, each other, and the sacred world from which our existence is emergent and interdependent."

About this show:

00-3:40 - Introductions and initial music

5:28 - How does brewing enable us to unwind in time?

6:50 - What is inebriation?

8:18 - What is mead?

10:48 - What actually happens in fermentation?

11:39 Heather’s process of fermentation; thinking about alcohol

15:50: Culturing the culture

23:41 How is time interfacing with the creation of a brew?

28:40 Some revitalizations in our time

32: 10 Brewing and circular time

50:38 Fairytale time