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Process:
Put five tablespoons of large barley into two gallons of
water and bring to a boil, then add two and a hah to four
ounces of hops tied in a bag, and keep boiling. Stir in two
and a half pounds of dark com syrup and continue boiling
for one hour, adding hot water in the meantime to make
two gallons.
Take off stove and when lukewarm, but not until then,
add a half cake of yeast which has first been dissolved in
lukewarm water. Mix the brew thoroughly and straiu
through flannel cloth into stone crock. Stand crock in a cool
dark place in cellar or cool closet and let ferment for about
three days, or until fermentation ceases. Then skim off top
and siphon the liquid carefully into bottles, being careful
not to disturb sediment in crock while drawing off hquid.
Cork bottles as you fill them, leaving air space of two to
three inches from bottom part of cork in necks. Lay bottles
on sides in cool dark place for not less than seven days. You
then may drink it, but longer aging makes it better as a
beverage. To make more, if you wish, just multiply the
ingredients. But be careful when putting into crock that you
allow enough room for the fermentation process, which swells
the brew; otherwise it wfll rxm over the rim and make a
sorry mess.
Here's another nice beer to make in five-gallon lots:
To five gallons of boiling water add seven ounces of
ground ginger, an ounce of cream of tartar and five sliced
lemons. Boilfor two hours,let cool to lukewarm state,strain
into eight-gallon stone crock and add eight pounds of brown
sugar. Now in two ounces of95% pure alcohol mix a quarter
teaspoon of oil of cloves and the same amount of oil of
cinnamon, which add to the mixtiue, along with one yeast
cake which has been dissolved in lukewarm water. Let crock
stand in cool dark place for about eighteen hours. Then
skim and siphon off into another stone crock. Let stand to
precipitate solids for another ten hours, then siphon off care
fully so as not to disturb sediment,filling bottles and corking
them at once. As this is a brew which packs a load of effer
vescence,it might be well to tie each cork to the bottle neck