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
2 gallonsIngredients
Directions
Make the brew
Boil the hops in water for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture and add molasses and enough water to make 2 gallons.
When the mixture is warm, add the yeast and let it stand overnight.
Bottle
Skim off the yeast carefully and pour the liquid into bottles.
Add wintergreen before sealing the bottles.
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
- Provide bitterness and aroma that give the beer its hop character.
- Molasses
- Supplies sugar that feeds the yeast and adds a dark, sweet flavour.
- Yeast
- Ferments the sugars overnight, producing carbonation and alcohol.
The step that matters
Skim off the yeast carefully. Disturbing the settled yeast cake stirs sediment into the liquid, which can cloud the beer and carry off-flavours into the bottles.
“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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