Granny's Beer

Found in a Cook-book from 1967.

Before botlling and filtering, boil corks, bottles, and a clean kitchen towel for 15 minutes.

In 19 quart of water add 12oz hop and 1 little bag of Kneipp (roasted barley for making coffee-like beverage, 1/2lb). Cook in covered pot for two hours. Remove from heat, filter through a sterilized kitchen cloth, add 1lb table sugar, cover and let it cool down.

In a lukewarm wort add 1oz yeast and let it stand covered for 4-5 hours. Remove white foam. The beer is ready to bottle.

Fasten corks with rope and let the beer ripen in a basement or other cool place for three months.

Comments please. Any suggestions for improvements (ale or lager yeast, hop, table or candy sugar, etc.) ? I'd like to try this before getting into serious brewing. But, this is also serious, right ? I mean, it's in the real cook-book. How does it taste ? Did someone try this ?

Reply to
Olix
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Sorry, converting from metric measures 3,5 dekagram hop, I got it wrongly 12oz. The correct result is 1,2 ounce.

Reply to
Olix

"Olix" wrote

Try that recipe and you'll NEVER get into serious brewing! Seriously. It will suck. Start here:

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Reply to
Ken Anderson

I dont normally take the role of a beer snob but...

I have to agree with Ken here on this one. That sounds primitive even for

1967. Are you sure you dont mean 1867? I kid, but seriously, that will not taste much like anything you've ever had (if you're lucky). If you want to get into brewing, find a store near you or go on line and buy a kit. Read some of the links on the basics of brewing that will certainly be posted here.

Making beer that is drinkable and more interesting than anything you will get commercially is the easiest thing in the world. The only question is crazy you decide to get and how complicated you want the process to be.

Good luck.

Reply to
phil

Just shy of five gallons of water, with one pound of sugar and some roasted barley for flavor, fermented in the bottle? That sounds like a soda-pop recipe along the lines of root-beer or ginger ale. Whatever it is, it isn't beer.

Karl S.

Reply to
Karl S.

What the hell! Try it! You'll have a great story for the other homebrewers.

D> Olix wrote:

Reply to
Al Fresco

Snipping done.

What do you mean 1867. My Dad and I made pretty good beer back then. We didn't have all the new fangled gadgets we have today but we made some pretty good darn beer. We still brew some of the old recipes today. BTW: My APA is ready and I have been "testing" it. It is 6:06 PM , please ignore any of my posts from now until tomorrow. Tom

Reply to
Tom Biasi

I really doubt this is a real recipe for anything. More authentic old-timey crap beer would be made with a 3 pound can of Blue Ribbon malt syrup (hopped), a malt can of white sugar, enough warm water to make 5 gallons, and a cake of bread yeast. Cover to keep the flies out, and bottle in a week or two when the bubbling stops.

Not that I would ever condone such a thing, Bob

Reply to
zxcvbob

Some stories in my family say that bottling was not necessary. They just ladled it out of the fermenter.

I have my great-grandfather's bottles!

Reply to
Dan Listermann

They liked their beer flat?

Reply to
evilpaul13

If it's got canned extract, it can't be that old, at least not in paleozymurgical terms.

Speaking of old times, has anyone ever read [the Finnish folk epic] The Kalevala? I've been reading it, and it seems a wife's domestic duties include malting of grain (in the sauna) for brewing.

Reply to
Theodore Kloba

They liked it alcoholic.

Reply to
Dan Listermann

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