#Waldmeister

[theyoungwaldschrat]

Galium odoratum - woodruff

[naturugarten]

Der #Waldmeister 💚 ist einer der schönsten Bodendecker für die schattigen Stellen im #Garten. Wer sich von seinen zarten Blüten nicht verzaubern lässt, dem sei gesagt: Er soll auch gegen dämonische 😈 Kräfte helfen. #Naturgarten #mygarden

[phototagebuch]

19.4.2024: Urban Garden

[cahirsmommy]

[welzel-rockstar-energy]

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[cgerwien]

Servatius 2022

[crispcocktails]

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[nougatbit]

just struggled so hard to open this this bottle. it took 5 minutes and my whole right hand hurts. but getting to the waldmeisterbrause is worth it

[echotunes]

caw caw! trick or treat! :3

hi!! I'm late now but happy belated halloween here's some Brausepulver! like I mentioned in another ask yesterday Brause is kind of like sherbet but it's not entirely the same thing. fizzy powder that you can technically put in water to make a drink but you can also just eat the powder by itself. I was never a huge fan of it tbh but a lot of people are so here you go

[jinseinomerry-go-round]

jello looks so nice but it tickles my gag reflex wrong every single time i try to eat it

[breitzbachbea]

I had one lasackneh ... Wish I had two.

[petermorwood]

St Patrick's Day Beer Is Black...

At least it should be: Guinness, Beamish, Murphy's, and various others from craft breweries around Ireland fit the description nicely.

So, in fact, does this.

Though it's a bit harder to find, people who find Guinness (etc.) stout "too heavy" usually like it, because it's a black lager and has the dark bitterness of stout without the "weight".

Green beer, on the other hand...

Well, there's a legitimate version, though it's not Irish. Meet Berliner Weissbier mit Waldmeistersirop, Berlin wheat beer with woodruff syrup:

Berlin Weissbier without syrup is a golden beer, and quite sour, hence the traditional addition of Waldmeister (woodruff) or Himbeer (strawberry RASPBERRY!); straws and wide goblets or squat tumblers are also traditional:

When @dduane and I were at a convention in Germany, we were told (true or not?) that people who didn't mind the sourness of the un-syruped beer sometimes drank "Ampeln" - traffic lights - during an evening out.

I've yet to get to Berlin, and Bavarian Weizenbier is a completely different creature to Berliner Weisse, but the city, the beer and a bunch of other things are all on my bucket list.

As for green beer in Ireland, time was I'd have said you'd never see it here even at St Patrick's, but time was, time is, times change, and tourists want Stuff.

That's probably why, when I was ambling past a pub in Dame Lane a few years ago, I saw a sign.

And when I got closer, the sign did indeed say what I thought it said.

So I went straight into the pub, sat down at the bar, took a deep breath...

...And ordered a Guinness.

:->

[collecosplay]

All Hallow's Eve LARP by L'Chaim Games - Meiserich (my ghost OC, yes he was shot in the face)

aka "Ghost Ball! Ghost Ball!", London, 02.12.23

Photos by Astora Photography on FB

My jester took so long to make because I took inspiration from Diana Wynne Jones' 'Howl's Moving Castle' where Sophie cuts up Howl's suit into triangles and then sews it back together, so Meiserich's outer layer is all triangles.

I wanted to make Meiserich out of scraps from previous projects, so virtually all of the cost of the outfit is the time that went into it. I worked on him for six months in virtually any free minute I could find the energy for. But it was worth it.

It's not 100% historically accurate, but this outfit was designed to double as a cosplay for the Fool from Robin Hobb's 'Assassin's Apprentice' and the rest of the Farseer Trilogy. (I still have to read the other books! No spoilers please though I have seen some sneak peeks thanks to fanart <3)

More about Meiserich as a character under the cut!

Meiserich (anglicised pronunciation: My-Zer-Rick) is a colloquial German name for galium odoratum, sweet woodruff. It's a flavour you can get commonly in German desserts and schnapps (Waldmeister), but I've never come across the flavour in the UK.

Meiserich is a jester from the early 1400's and lived in a part of the Holy Roman Empire that is now Germany, namely within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster. At the court of Droste zur Aa Meiserich had a close relationship with Lady Klara of the keep. In 1412 this court took part in a knights' jousting tournament in Buda where the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund was also in attendance. Whilst there, through social occasions, Lady Klara found out and obtained evidence that Sigismund was the one who poisoned the previous King of Germany, Jobst of Moravia. She confided in Meiserich what had happened.

It comes to light that Lady Klara knows too much, so Sigismund sends soldiers to Münster to besiege the keep. Meiserich encourages his Lady to run and hide with the evidence of the poisoning. As a jester it was also Meiserich's job to act as a messenger and diplomat at times. However, the siege negotiations failed, he was shot dead with an early arquebus design and the castle was fired upon with trebuchets. Lady Klara initially survived in the rubble in an airpocket but ultimately suffocated.

Meiserich usually haunts the ruins of the castle keep he used to live in. It is now a tourist destination and he likes to tease the tourists. He also eavesdrops and through them and the keep staff learns of other things going on in the world. He has not forgotten about Lady Klara and wants to reveal the truth she uncovered to the world.

Please note: The poisoning plot is fictional, Sigismund doing this is something I made up based on some Wikipedia reading I did.

His wish to have fulfilled at the LARP was to have the keep in Münster renovated and restored, revealing the buried corpse of Lady Klara. In her hand are a vial of poison and a letter proving Sigismund was the one who poisoned the previous king of Germany, Jobst of Moravia. It will be a joy for the historians and great to hear the tour guides at the keep bring this up in perpetuity.

And he got his wish fulfilled at the game! I'm so happy. Monsieur Roc Flamboyant (a French noble, 1600's) was touched enough by Meiserich's story and devotion to Lady Klara that he made the wish for Meiserich. I could not have asked for a better end to this game.

Shout out to the podcasts that helped me put together Meiserich as a character:

Gone Medieval by History Hit

We're Not So Different - esp. episode "Medieval Fail Sons: Wenceslas IV & Sigismund"

Weird Medieval Guys - esp. episode "Sieging for Dummies"

The Court Jester by Kleio Pethainou

I'm glad I picked the early 1400's for Meiserich's death, this is still before the Western printing press, Columbus sailing off to the detriment of many, the fall of Constantinople, and the big witch hunting craze, so he died in a bygone world on the cusp of the Early Modern Period.

If I could give him one power like in BBC Ghosts, I'd say that the two bells on his hat are audible to the living.

[apfelhalm]

in my Waldmeister era

[cgerwien]

Ein wenig Regen am Morgen

Ein wenig Regen am Morgen