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Maple Beer

Maple Beer is a fermented beverage made from boiling water, maple syrup, spruce essence, and yeast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Maple Beer

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine 4 gallons of boiling water with 1 quart of maple syrup and 1 tablespoon of essence of spruce in a large pot.

  2. Allow the mixture to cool until it is milk-warm.

Ferment and bottle

  1. Add 1 pint of yeast and stir gently.

  2. Once fermented, bottle the mixture.

  3. Let it sit for 3 days before serving.

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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What each ingredient does

Maple syrup
Provides sugars that the yeast ferments and adds sweetness and maple flavor.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that gives the drink its fizz.
Essence of spruce
Adds a resinous, aromatic flavor that defines the beer's character.

The step that matters

Cool to milk-warm before adding the yeast. Yeast is killed by very hot liquid, so the mixture must cool first. Milk-warm is warm enough for the yeast to become active and ferment steadily.

“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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