Beverages

Ale ...

Made from grains and hops that were brought to Gor during the acquisition voyages. Gorean Ale is closer to a honey lager than to an Earth ale or beer. Its color is deep and golden. Traditionally kept in a cask or a keg and served in a tankard.

The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons. Over this he then closed his fist. It was the sign of the hammer, the sign of Thor. The tankard then, with two great bronze handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. It was the victory ale.
---Marauders of Gor, pg 82

Bazi tea ...

A herbal tea that comes in all varieties like tea on earth. There is no specific reference but the tea seems to be a common , enjoyed by High and Low Castes. It is commonly served hot and heavily sugared.

The books decribe that it is served in small cups three at a time but there is no quote about a "tea ceremony"

Is it ready? I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured. She did not make herself tea, of course... She lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass of tea.
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 139

Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and highly sugared. It gives strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured.
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 38

Black wine ...

Made from beans brought back to Gor during the early acquisition voyages and grown in the mountain of Thentis, Black wine is Gor's equivalent of earth's coffee. Its decribed as very strong which would come close to earth espresso.

It is served hot in a mug or cup, brewed as strong as espresso it would rather be served in small cups than large coffee mugs.

The books vary about served black or with sugar and/or milk/cream (even powdered cream). Quotes tell that the first girl brings the black wine and the second girl the tray with sugar and creams but also that the expression "second slave" is used as term for just wanting the coffee black.

I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls...It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee.
---Assassins of Gor, pg 106

Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have lasted the night. If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market.
---Guardsman of Gor, pg 295

The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving.
---Guardsman of Gor, pg 244-245

'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," the first slave being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served.

Chocolate ...

Also a drink brewed from cocoa beans  grown in the tropic. The powdered beans are warmed along with milk, sugars and cream and served in a mug or a goblet if wished cold.

This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No Mistress," she said, "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics.
---Kajira of Gor, pg 61

Falarian Wine ...

Not specifically described, this wine is mentioned but few times, as a rare and expensive wine which one might find at the Home of a wealthy Ubar but not in a tavern.

Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city. She, though only a slave, would choose to sip it." Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 158

"There will be delicacies from as far away as Bazi and Anango," she said, "and we shall open vessels of Falarian from the private stores of the Ubar."
---Magicians of Gor, pg 9

Fermented milk curds ...

Drunk by Tuchuks, made from bosk milk and very potent. it would be served in a bowl.   No actual description is found in the books, simply mention of it.

By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on his hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.
---Nomads of Gor, pg 28

Juice ...

Gorean fruits of course, tospit, larma  and other, even those similiar to earth fruits. Juices are generally served in a goblet freshly prepared or from a pitcher or bottle chilled.

I purchased some larma juice for a tarsk bit. "Is it cool," I asked. "Yes," she said." --- Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 257

Ka-la-na ...

Made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree, a sweet strong red wine and symbol of romantic love. It has various levels of quality, the best ka-la-na is said to come from Ar. Ka-la-na is poured from bottles which might bear the wax seal of the City it came from and served hot, cold, or warm in a goblet. Warmed Ka-la-na however is seen served in the Gorean enameled trimmed clay bowl also called crater. It is also knows to have 'warming' effects on females. Although the ka-la-na tree is described as yellow or golden the wine itself is always red.

Do you know the wine? I asked.
No, she said.
I turned the bottle so that she might read the label. It was a small bottle of Boleto's Nectar of the Public Slave Gardens. Boleto is a well-known winegrower from the vicinity of Ar. He is famous for the production of a large number of reasonably good medium-grade ka-la-nas. This was one of the major wines, and perhaps the best, served in Ar's public slave gardens: indeed, it had originally been comissioned for that market: hence the name.
---Mercenaries of Gor, pg 360

The guards had liked us, muchly, and had apparently expected that they would for, to our delight, they had purchased a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket, which they had permitted us, swallow by swallow, to share. I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it cost only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave. I remembered each of the four swallows which I had had. I tasted them even still, with the meat and bread which I had eaten. It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female. I think it is true.
---Captive of Gor,pg 8:

I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire.
---Captive of Gor. pg 331

"But that sort of thing is behind me now," she said to me, throwing back her head and quaffing deeply of the ruby-red Ka-la-na in her cup.
---Rogue of Gor, pg 20:

The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance...
---Slave Girl of Gor, pg 250

Kal-da ...

It is cheap Ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, and hot spices (cinnamon and nutmeg). It is cheap and tastes good.mixture of usually cheap Ka-la-na, mulling spices and citrus juice.
Heated in a brewing pot over the fires, Kal-da is served hot in a silver goblet to a Master and a silver footed bowl.  

I expected its popularity was due more to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs, and to its cheapness (a poor grade of Ka-la-na wine being used in its brewing) than to any gustatory excellence. Moreover, where there was Kal-da there should be bread and meat. I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; My mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor`s temperate forests.
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 76

Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and suddenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. Each carried a heavy pot of the foul, boiling brew and, cup by cup, replenished the cups of the men.
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 226

Mead ...

Made in Torvaldsland from fermented honey and water, often with spices; a dark amber drink, thick and sweet. Served traditionally warmed and in a drinking horn.Stored in bottles.

*Here Jarl, said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland, brewed from fermented, honey, thick and sweet.
---Marauders of Gor, p 90

Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried.
---Marauders of Gor, p 78

Milk ...

Fresh milk of the bosk, the verr, and sometimes even the kaiila. The bosk milk is rich and sweet, kailla milk is reddish with a strong salty taste. All milk is normally served in a goblet as desired.

Kaiila milk, like verr milk, is used by the peoples of the Tahari; it is reddish and has a strong salty taste, features which one supposes are connected with some sort of climatological adaptation; it has a high iron content; men do not drink it unless water is plentiful;
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 4:

The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong." Savages of Gor, pg. 60

Kaiila milk, which is used, like verr milk, by the people of the Tahari, is reddish, and has a strong salty taste, it contains much ferrous sulfate. Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 71

Paga: ...

Paga is requested three different ways: chilled, room temperature, or warmed. The drink is served in a footed bowl. It also symbolizes physical love (lust).

Some is brewed from the Sa-Tarna grain. Some is brewed from the Sul. Sul paga is a strong, clear, lumpy drink similar to vodka, Sa-tarna paga, is similar to whiskey. (please look there for further info). 

Palm wine ...

Mentioned in Explorers of Gor as being one of the exports of Schendi, no description given other than the fact it is quite tasty.

"One of her most delicious exports is palm wine."
---Explorers of Gor, pg115

Rence beer ...

Brewed from the pith of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk. It is steeped, boiled and fermented from crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the rence plant. It would be very rare to find this available in a tavern.

At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
---Raiders of Gor, pg 18

Sa-Paga ...

Pagar-Sa-Tarna ( Sa-Paga) means "pleasure of the life-daughter".   Paga, the symbol of physical love, is an undistilled amber colored alcoholic beverage made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as "hot" and "firey" and similar to whiskey. Its normally stores it vats, verr skin botas or  bottles. Its often also drunk directly from the bota or poured into goblets, pots, cups, glasses or kantharos (footed bowls). Paga can be served as desired, cool, room temp or even warmed. ..

a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 74

In most taverns no bottle is brought to the table but the paga is brought to the table, by the paga slave, a cup at a time, the cups normally being filled from a vat behind the counter.
---Explorers of Gor, pg 158

He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of Paga
---Tarnsman of Gor, pg 78

... to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a pouring sling...
---Raiders of Gor, pg 111

Paga! called the standing man. Paga! A blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man.
---Rogue of Gor, pg 78.

Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses."
---Renegades of Gor, pg 77

I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and AR, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 74

Samos put down a cup of paga.
---Raiders of Gor, pg 306

The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle.
---Beasts of Gor, pg 371

She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kantharos
---Renegades of Gor, pg 71

`Your paga,' said the nude slave girl, who served me, her wrists chained. `It is warmed as you wished.' I took it from her, not even glancing upon her, and drained the goblet... I liked paga warm. One felt is so much the sooner that way.
---Raiders of Gor, pg 100

The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend to be fond of hot paga.
---Vagabonds of Gor, pg 16

Slave wine/ second wine ...

The terms slave wine, breading wine and second wine, are used in reference to mixtures used in birth control. There are two mixtures of slave wine. The first type, slave wine, is meant to prevent pregnancy. Its a  black, bitter beverage that acts as a contraceptive; its effect is almost instantaneous and lasts for well over a month. (main ingredient: sip root). The second type is called breeding wine or second wine and is given to a girl to counteract the effect the slavewine, when her Master wishes to breed her making a slave girl fertile.

I withdrew an object from my pouch.
" Master?" she said.
I held the object before her. She regarded it with dismay.
"I have already chewed sip root within in two moon, " she said.
"Open your mouth," I said.
"Yes Master, "she said.
I then thrust the object into her mouth.
"Chew it well, " I said, "and swallow it, bit by bit."
She grimaced, at the barest taste of the object.
"Begin," I told her. she began.
"Not so quickly, " I told her. "More slowly, Very slowly.
Very, very slowly. Savor it well."
She whimpered in obedience..
She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as ash had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and, indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons, In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine" When this is administered she usually knows that she has been selected for crossing with a handsome male slave.

Blood Brothers of Gor, page 319

Sul Paga ...

Made from the golden vine borne vegetable called "sul" (similar to a potato),  Sul-Paga is a distilled, clear alcoholic beverage like vodka. Typically drunk by peasants and seldom available outside their villages and would be a rarity in a paga tavern to find sul paga available.  It is served at room temperature. (see also sa-paga)

Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is as clear as water
---Slave Girl of Gor, pg 134

Sul paga, as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a thalarion. To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations. And even then, it is said, it is difficult to manage. There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later.
---Slave Girl of Gor, pg 414

Ta-wine ...

A sweet dry wine made from the ta-grapes grown primarily of the terraces on the Isle of Cos. The color of this wine is not stated in the books. Its served chilled  or room temperature and in a goblet.

One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and dry, from distant Ar
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 213

Turian Liquor ...

The liqueurs of Turia are regarded as the best on Gor. Turian wines are sweet, syrupy, flavored and sugared heavily.

"She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it."

(Explorers of Gor, pg 10)

Turian Wine ...

A thick syrupy wine so sweet and thick that is it said one can see a thumbprint on its surface. ine may commonly be cut with water. This occurs often when wine is drunk at homes at meals, at certain parties and in some taverns. A wine krater, a mixing bowl, is used to mix the wine and water. "Krater" is an ancient Greek term that means "mixing bowl." If the wine is not cut, it might also be served in very small amounts. At more raucous parties or taverns, the wine is rarely cut or only in a slight amount. Served room temperature or chilled in a goblet.

I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface.
---Nomads of Gor, pg 8

Water ...

Drinking wate is obtained in many ways, from a spring, wells, buckets filled at the river shore or river depending on the area.

Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.
---Explorers of Gor, pg 311

White Wine ...

Light in color and taste, note that it is not referred to as Ka-la-na, simply wine.

In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small  pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie.---Fighting Slave of Gor, pg 275-276