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Hop Beer

A fermented beverage made from hops, molasses, water, yeast, and wintergreen.

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 Beer

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.

Ferment and bottle

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

  2. Let it stand overnight.

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

  4. 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.

Explore the science

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
Add bitterness and aroma that balance the sweetness of the molasses.
Molasses
Provides sugar that the yeast ferments into alcohol and carbonation.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that carbonates the beer.
Wintergreen
Adds a strong minty flavour and aroma to the finished drink.

The step that matters

Adding the yeast at milk-warm. Yeast works best at moderate warmth. If the mixture is too hot it can be killed, and if it is too cold fermentation starts slowly or not at all.

“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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