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Hop Beee

A fermented beverage made from hops, molasses, yeast, water, 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 Beee

2 gallons

Ingredients

Directions

Make the wort

  1. Boil the hops in water for 1 hour.

  2. Strain the mixture and add molasses.

  3. Add 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 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.

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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. 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

Molasses
Provides sugar that the yeast ferments, and gives the beer its sweetness and dark colour.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide, making the drink fizzy.
Hops
Add bitterness and aroma that balance the sweetness of the molasses.

The step that matters

Skim off the yeast carefully and pour the liquid into bottles. Yeast left in the liquid keeps fermenting inside sealed bottles, building pressure that can make them burst. Skimming it off with care leaves the clear liquid behind.

“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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