The rule is about the same for all beer. Boil the ingredients
two or three hours, pour in a half-pint of molasses to a pailful,
while the beer is scalding hot. Strain the beer, and when about
lukewarm, put a pint of lively yeast to a barrel. Leave the bung loose
till the beer is done working; you can ascertain this by observing
when the froth subsides. If your family be large, and the beer will be
drank rapidly, it may as well remain in the barrel; but if your family
be small, fill what bottles you have with it; it keeps better bottled.
A raw potato or two, cut up and thrown in, while the ingredients are
boiling, is said to make beer spirited.
Ginger beer is made in the following proportions:--One cup of ginger,
one pint of molasses, one pail and a half of water, and a cup of
lively yeast. Most people scald the ginger in half a pail of water,
and then fill it up with a pailful of cold; but in very hot weather
some people stir it up cold. Yeast must not be put in till it is cold,
or nearly cold. If not to be drank within twenty-four hours, it must
be bottled as soon as it works.
Table beer should be drawn off into _stone_ jugs, with a lump of
white sugar in each, securely corked.
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