Hippocras
Hippocras is a alcoholic drink in Westeros. Hippocras is likely made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, most notably cinnamon, and possibly heated. Highgarden produces a fine sweet hippocras.[1]
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History
It was King Viserys I Targaryen's custom to take a cup of hippocras at the hour of the bat.[2]
Ser Duncan the Tall drank hippocras during the wedding tourney at Whitewalls.[3]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Lord Roose Bolton drinks hippocras when he hosts Ser Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth at Harrenhal.[4] Roose sips hippocras prior to the Red Wedding.[5]
A Feast For Crows
Queen Cersei Lannister has Falyse Stokeworth and her husband, Ser Balman Byrch, as guests for dinner. By the time she joins them in her solar a flagon of hippocras is already half empty.[6] Cersei and Taena Merryweather celebrate with hippocras after the queen comes to an arrangement with the High Sparrow.[7]
A Dance with Dragons
Lord Wyman Manderly brings casks of hippocras with him from White Harbor to Barrowton.[8]
Quotes
A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.[9]
—thoughts of Cersei Lannister
I could have hired a Faceless Man to kill Bronn for half of what I've spent on hippocras.[6]
To the fervor of the Warrior's Sons and the brilliance of the Queen Regent. To Cersei, the First in Her Name!
—Taena Merryweather toasting Cersei Lannister
References
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Blacks and the Greens.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 37, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 3, Cersei I.
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