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White Spruce Beer

A fermented beverage made from water, sugar, yeast, and spruce essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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White Spruce Beer

White Spruce Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large container, combine 5 gallons of water and 3 pounds of white sugar.

  2. Add 1 cup of good yeast and enough essence of spruce to achieve your desired flavor.

  3. Allow the mixture to ferment.

  4. Once fermented, bottle the beverage.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

White sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide while adding sweetness.
Yeast
Ferments the sugar, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that gives the beer its fizz.
Water
Forms the bulk of the liquid in which the sugar dissolves and the yeast ferments.
Essence of spruce
Provides the resinous, aromatic flavour that defines the beer.

The step that matters

Bottling after fermentation. Bottling before fermentation has finished can leave sugar still converting to carbon dioxide, building pressure inside the bottles and risking breakage. Wait until fermentation is complete before bottling.

“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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