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Hop Beek

A fermented beverage made from hops, molasses, yeast, and wintergreen, boiled and cooled before bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Hop Beek

2 gallons

Ingredients

Directions

Make the brew

  1. Boil the hops in water for 1 hour.

  2. Strain the mixture and add molasses and enough water to make 2 gallons.

  3. When the mixture is milk-warm, add the yeast.

  4. Let it stand overnight.

Bottle

  1. Skim off the yeast carefully and pour the liquid into bottles.

  2. Add wintergreen before sealing the bottles.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

  1. Hops + molassestop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Hops
Provide the bitter, aromatic flavour that characterises the beer.
Molasses
Supplies fermentable sugar for the yeast and adds sweetness and depth.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars into alcohol and carbonation.
Wintergreen
Adds a strong minty aroma and flavour.

The step that matters

Add the yeast at milk-warm. Yeast is killed by high heat and works slowly when cold, so the liquid should be warm but not hot. Too hot can stop fermentation before it starts.

“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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