Light Honey Beer
Ingredients
Directions
Make the mixture
Pour boiling water over honey in a large container.
Let the mixture cool.
Add yeast and let it stand for 30 hours.
Strain and bottle
Strain the mixture.
Bottle it and cork tightly.
It will be ready for use the next day.
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
What each ingredient does
- Honey
- Supplies the sugars that the yeast ferments into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- Yeast
- Ferments the honey's sugars, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that give the beer its character.
The step that matters
Let the mixture cool before adding the yeast. Yeast is killed or weakened by very hot liquid. Cooling the honey water to a warm, moderate temperature keeps the yeast alive so it can ferment the sugars properly.
“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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