Why it works: Hops and molasses work together. They rank in the top 41% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Make the wort
Boil half the water with the hops.
Add the boiled mixture to the other half of the water in a tun.
Mix well with molasses and yeast.
Ferment
Allow to ferment.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Hops + molassestop 41% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5 recipes
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Hops
- Adds bitterness and aroma that balance the sweetness of the molasses.
- Molasses
- Provides fermentable sugars that yeast converts into alcohol.
- Yeast
- Converts the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
The step that matters
Mix well with molasses and yeast. Molasses and yeast must be evenly dispersed so that fermentable sugar is available throughout the liquid. Uneven mixing can leave pockets where fermentation is slow or uneven.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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