Brunswick Mum (german: Braunschweiger Mumme, lat, Mumma Brunsvicensium or ''Mumia'', french: Mom de Bronsvic), was originally an alcoholic beer from Brunswick in

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, which ranged from weak to strong depending on the brewing method. One of the first black beers recorded in history.

History

Mum originated in the

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. The

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gave the beer a long

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that allowed a wide distribution; Mum became the most important export from Brunswick and, in the early modern period was shipped to places such as

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and the Caribbean. The drink is still sold in Brunswick where since autumn 2008, for the first time in about 200 years, it is produced in alcoholic variants.Braunschweiger Mumme-Meile
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Notes

References

* Christian Basilius: ''Die Mumme-Fibel der Mumme H. Nettelbeck K.G. Geschichte(n) seit 1390.'' Braunschweig 1999. * * Andreas Döring: ''Wirth! Nochmal zwo Viertel Stübchen! Braunschweiger Gaststätten & Braunschweiger Bier damals.'' Braunschweig 1997. * Anna Klie: ''Brunswyksche Mumme.'' Braunschweig 1898. * Heinrich Mack: ''Zur Geschichte der Mumme. Insbesondere des Mummehandels im 17. Jahrhundert.'' in: ''Braunschweigisches Magazin.'' Zwißler, Wolfenbüttel 1911,17. * Ernst A. Roloff: ''Heimatchronik der Stadt Braunschweig.'' Archiv für Deutsche Heimatpflege, Köln 1955. * Gerd Spies: ''Das Mummetor.'' Miszellen. Bd 25. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1976.

External links

* Artikel ''Braunschweigische Mumme'' (1733) und ''Mumme'' (1739) in Zedler’s Universal-Lexicon
''„Oeconomischen Encyclopädie“'' von 1773

Offizielle Website der Nettelbeck KG, der letzten Mumme-Brauerei
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''Zwei Veteranen des Bierstaates'' (1880)
über die Mumme und die Goslarer

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Artikel über die Herstellung der Braunschweiger Mumme"Braunschweiger Speis und Trank" inklusive des Loblieds auf die Mumme auf www.GiBS.info

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