Well, it’s not as though adulterated festive beverages died out with the Greeks...
“Egg Ale Recipe includes (for twelve gallons of ale) ‘the gravy of eight pounds of beef’, ‘twelve eggs, the gravy beef, a pound of raisins, oranges and spice’ and sack.”
“Cock Ale According to Pete Brown: They used to get a cock (i.e. a male chicken), stick it in a sack and bash it against the walls until it was completely pulverized. It was important that the bones were shattered and the whole thing was a bloody pulp. They they’d chuck in a load of spices, such as cloves and mace, and drop the bag into a vat of ale while it was fermenting, and age the resulting brew for longer than normal to produce a much richer, heartier beer than normal.”
http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/ds/sle/altered/glossary/drinkglossary.htm
Retsina/mead/beer trashcan punch sounds potable compared to this.
REALLLY loathesome!