Wines, Ales, and Spirits of the Realms

Ales

Ciders

Spirits

Wines

Arabellan Dry

Arabellan Dry is a fine red and very dry wine that should be served at cellar temperature to best exhibit its woodsy undertones and slightly berrylike taste.

Berduskan Dark

Berduskan Dark wine is a heavy, sweet, and burning wine. It is very dark in hue, almost black, and high in alcohol content. It is highly prized by some across the Realms. Once Berduskan dark was bottled in a cooperative effort of guilds in Berdusk. After a falling out between the Vinters' and Alchemists' Guilds the wine became available in the containers found elsewhere in Faerun.

Blood Wine

Blood Wine, a product of Aglarond, has a heavy body and deep-red tone. The taste is lush and full, with a slight afterbite. The wine comes from a shriveled variety of grape that grows on twisted vines, grapes said to be possessed by the dead who enacted petty cruelties upon others while they lived. True or not, blood wine has a distinctly heavy flavor.

Clarry

Clarry is a blend of table wines sweetened with honey and spices. It is a treat for any special occasion.

Evermead

Evermead is an elven mead - the one against which other meads can be judged. A sip is reputed to be a taste of the higher planes themselves. Made according to closely guarded traditional methods in Evermeet and allegedly aged for hundreds of years, very few kegs of Evermead ever reach non-elven hands. Outside of Evermeet, Evermead can be bought through rare and exotic traders.

Fire Wine

Fire Wine is a thick, dark, almost black wine made in the Old Empires is named for the fire it creates in one’s belly. Fire wine is an extremely strong and spicy wine, reputed to have medicinal qualities.

Zzar

Zzar is a type of fortified wine much favored in Waterdeep and the Sword Coast. It is made of a type of white grape produced in great number in the abbeys of Goldenfields and other places, fortified with brandy and amaretto to produced a fiery-orange, almond-flavored beverage that varies in subtlety widely across vintners and brewers.