Lambswool

Traditionally drunk on Twelfth Night, this unusually named pagan throwback is consumed during the practice of ‘wassailing’, the ancient ritual of awakening apple trees from their winter slumber to encourage a bountiful apple crop in the coming year. Custom dictates that wassailers drink from a communal cup of lambswool while singing the wassail song. Pots and pans are beaten with sticks to drive away any harvest-spoiling entities and, in some of the more rowdy ceremonies, shotguns