Cocktails/Brews Cheap Small Beer

cheap small beer
(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1861)

Ingredients:

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12 quarts of cold water​

1-1/2 pints strong hop tea​

1-1/2 pints molasses​

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Instructions:

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To twelve quarts of cold water, add a pint and a half of strong hop tea, and a pint and a half of molasses. Mix in well together, and bottle it immediately. It will be fit for use the next day, if the weather is warm.​

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

These are really interesting @donna as I never thought of making my own beer. Never realized it was relatively simple. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Jimklag]

Tjere is a post saying "wooohoo" above

These are really interesting @donna as I never thought of making my own beer. Never realized it was relatively simple. Thanks for sharing!

My dad's dad had the best smelling basement in Toledo, Ohio. He brewed his own beer and made his own sauerkraut in addition to pickles and various other pickled veggies.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Tjere is a post saying "wooohoo" above

My dad's dad had the best smelling basement in Toledo, Ohio. He brewed his own beer and made his own sauerkraut in addition to pickles and various other pickled veggies.

Now that sounds like a fun man cave!

 

[Jimklag]

Now that sounds like a fun man cave!

People are always talking about certain smells triggering memories from their youth. That's mine. I will never smell sauerkraut without thinking of Grandpa Klag.

 

[donna]

Those had to be great smells. What wonderful memories you must have.