Treacle Beer
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the hops in water for ten minutes.
Strain the mixture.
Add the treacle when the mixture is lukewarm.
Stir in the yeast and 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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What each ingredient does
- Hops
- Add bitterness and aroma that balance the sweetness of the treacle.
- Treacle
- Provides the fermentable sugars that feed the yeast and give the beer its dark, rich sweetness.
- Yeast
- Converts the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
The step that matters
Add the treacle when the mixture is lukewarm. Yeast is killed by very hot liquid, so the mixture must have cooled enough before the treacle goes in. Adding the yeast only after it has cooled keeps it alive to ferment the sugars.
“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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