Excellent Table Beer
Ingredients
Directions
Pour 39 gallons of hot water over 3 bushels of malt.
Cover and let it sit 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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What each ingredient does
- Malt
- Supplies the starches and enzymes that convert into fermentable sugars, providing the base sweetness and body of the beer.
“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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