Recipe - Green Corn Stalk Beer

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The stalks, green as they were, as soon as pulled up, were carried to a
convenient trough, then chopped and pounded so much, that, by boiling,
all the juice could be extracted out of them; which juice every planter
almost knows is of saccharine a quality almost as any thing can be, and
that any thing of a luxuriant corn stalk is very full of it, ... After
this pounding, the stalks and all were put into a large copper, there
lowered down it its sweetness with water, to an equality with common
observations in malt wort, and then boiled, till the liquor in a glass is
seen to break, as the breweres term it; after that it is strained, and
boiled again with hops. The beer I drank had been made above twenty days,
and bottled off about four days. Published in the Virginia Gazette on Feb.
14, 1775. A family recipe by Landon Carter.

Recipe By : Thomas Manteufel

From: Dscollin@aol.Com Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:20:37 0500

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