Date: 2019-09-24 09:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sanguinity
(according to legend the actions of Lincoln college caused the death of a Brasenose student and they've been apologising ever since.)

O_O

Okay then. I'm surprised nothing more came of that but an apology in perpetua, but I suppose times were different then?

*reads random pages on the internet, all of which are unsourced, so who knows*

It seems that ground-ivy is 'creeping charlie,' a relative of mint. The French call it 'gill' (which refers to beer-making somehow), it's a medicinal herb, and now that I've seen photos of it, it's nothing like helix-ivy at all. It allegedly predates hops in English beer-making, and it served the same purpose as hops: flavor and preservative. I can find some recipes for using it in beer-making, but they seem to be more people dicking around until they find something they like rather than anything traditional.
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