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Hop Beer

A fermented beverage made with hops, molasses, yeast, and wintergreens.

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

2 gallons

Ingredients

Directions

Make the wort

  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 warm, add the yeast.

  2. Let it stand overnight.

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

  4. Add wintergreens 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
Adds bitterness and aroma that balance the sweetness of the molasses.
Molasses
Supplies sugars that yeast ferments and adds a deep, sweet flavor.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that make the beer lively.
Wintergreens
Adds a minty, aromatic flavor to the finished drink.

The step that matters

Adding the yeast when the mixture is warm. Yeast works best in warm liquid. If the mixture is too hot it can kill the yeast, and if it is too cold fermentation becomes slow or stalls. Warm but not hot is the aim.

“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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