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Excellent Table Beer

A method for brewing a table beer using malt, hops, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Malt and hops work together. They rank in the top 49% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Excellent Table Beer

Ingredients

Directions

Mash

  1. Pour one-third of the total water over the malt.

  2. Cover the mixture warm for 30 minutes.

  3. Mash the mixture.

  4. Let the mash stand for 2.5 hours.

  5. Drain the mash.

Second mash

  1. Add half of the remaining water.

  2. Mash again.

  3. Let the mash stand for 30 minutes.

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. Malt + hopstop 49% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Malt
Provides the starches that enzymes convert into fermentable sugars, giving the beer its body and base.
Hot water
Dissolves the malt sugars and keeps the mash warm so the enzymes can work.
Dried hops
Add bitterness and aroma that balance the malt's sweetness.

The step that matters

Let the mash stand for 2.5 hours. During the rest, enzymes in the malt convert starches into sugars. Stopping early leaves starch unconverted, so less sugar is available for fermentation and the beer tastes thinner.

“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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