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Queens Ginger Beer Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Put twelve pounds of loaf sugar and eight ounces of the best white ginger, well pounded, to ten gallons of water.
  • Boil together for half an hour, then put into a tub or large pan.
  • When cool, add three or four spoonfuls of good yeast, and let it work all night; on the following morning put it into a cask.
  • When it has done working, which will be in three or four days, add one ounce of isinglass, one ounce and a half of hops, and stop it up.
  • It will be fit for use in a month, and may be drunk without bottling.

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  • cabincrazyone 17 years ago
    Thanks for the entertaining post. I presume part of the reason you posted this interesting old recipe is for the humorous aspect of it. There's kind of a devil-may-care attitude, or chancy adventure in it.
    I think there's a pretty good chance that before the month is up the cork would be blown off the cask followed by an eruption of stinky foam.
    The isinglass would clarify the brew, settling the yeast to the bottom. I don't think it kills the yeast, and 3 or 4 days isn't enough time for the alcohol content to kill the yeast.
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