old time country homebrew.
#1
Posted 10 December 2014 - 04:36 PM
#2
Posted 10 December 2014 - 05:02 PM
I'm not sure how you'd recreate what was likely a very inconsistent product. what I'm saying is you'd have a giant target to shoot for. it probably ranged from okay to barely drinkable. I can't imagine dry yeast was that good back then.
#3
Posted 10 December 2014 - 05:04 PM
#4
Posted 10 December 2014 - 05:14 PM
Its just nostalgia
but you aren't that old right? i assume you never drank the stuff. I get that it would be cool to do things the old way. i think my grandfather made beer in a similar manner although I don't know how I'd determine his process since he died when I was about 4 or 5. I might have even been at his house when it happened now that I think about it. holy shit I think I forgot that or maybe I'm dreaming it up...
#5
Posted 10 December 2014 - 05:17 PM
#6
Posted 10 December 2014 - 05:43 PM
#7
Posted 11 December 2014 - 04:04 PM
but you aren't that old right? i assume you never drank the stuff. I get that it would be cool to do things the old way. i think my grandfather made beer in a similar manner although I don't know how I'd determine his process since he died when I was about 4 or 5. I might have even been at his house when it happened now that I think about it. holy shit I think I forgot that or maybe I'm dreaming it up...
well just to keep the grandfather thing going I do recall some journal entries he had where he would get back from his military whatevers and crack open some homebrews he made before he left and would say, "just got back and had some homebrew and it was damn good." I know the feeling
Edited by Evil_Morty, 11 December 2014 - 04:05 PM.
#8
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:04 PM
what about hops...part of the extract?
#9
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:06 PM
what about hops...part of the extract?
I would guess so. I don't think people could get hops easily.
eta: I take it back. I guess they did sell hops. httpss://byo.com/brown-ale/item/839-homebrewing-during-prohibition
I'm not sure under what guise they were selling them
Edited by Evil_Morty, 12 December 2014 - 01:08 PM.
#10
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:30 PM
#11
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:33 PM
Aren't there stories about places where hops just grew wild all over the place? That doesn't mean people knew that or could always get their hands on them but I would think that if you tried hard enough, you might find some Cluster or something.
oh it was a cluster alright
but yes, I'd guess most wild hops would be more miss than hit.
oh wait - from that link I posted above I guess some syrups were hopped:
Manufacturers also omitted the words "hops" and "hop flavored" from their labels.
#12
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:42 PM
Yeah, I just read that. I'm sure that most of this stuff was awful. Cleaning and sanitizing must have been problematic, I'm sure that yeast was pretty much baker's yeast and there were little-to-no tools or equipment. I'm also sure that "good information" was very sparse. The beer was probably very much bleh.oh it was a cluster alright but yes, I'd guess most wild hops would be more miss than hit.oh wait - from that link I posted above I guess some syrups were hopped:
#13
Posted 12 December 2014 - 01:46 PM
Yeah, I just read that. I'm sure that most of this stuff was awful. Cleaning and sanitizing must have been problematic, I'm sure that yeast was pretty much baker's yeast and there were little-to-no tools or equipment. I'm also sure that "good information" was very sparse. The beer was probably very much bleh.
I know you wouldn't have liked it but probably making sour/wild beers would have been the best choice. I wonder if some beers had viable yeast in them back then. that probably would have been the best possible source.
#14
Posted 12 December 2014 - 03:04 PM
I would suspect they had a lot of wild things going in the beer. If you pitched enough you may have gotten a unique and decent flavor from the local infections.
Maybe because as in say my grandfathers case, and well just maybe sure, the guy who had a little plot of land that he raised 95% of his 2 children and wives food on with out modern farm equipment in had some kick ass wild yeasts. His wifes brother had a vineyard 1 hillside over..
100+ miles to a any real towns population wise.
Some enjoy a bit of the wild in the beer.
Not that that is actually my cup of tea. I am actually quite boring in my beer tastes.
But a geek for the how it can be done part of brewing.
#16
Posted 14 December 2014 - 07:04 PM
I'm sure that an able brewer could make some fine grog in a crock like that,
#17
Posted 18 December 2014 - 09:37 PM
my LHBS has a huge one with the stores logo from the 1950s, they've been a HBS since 1955
I have a recipe card my Grandma gave me that she was given by one of my uncles father's in law
it reads
scour out and rinse a big crock
take 1 can of Blue Ribbon Extract, mix with warm water and 1 Malt can full of honey
add water in a crock to 5 gallons, you can use yeast, but I prefer to use a Quart of homebrew,
cover with cheesecloth, stand in a cool room until it stops working, then bottle and cap
#18
Posted 18 December 2014 - 09:51 PM
scour out and rinse a big crock
take 1 can of Blue Ribbon Extract, mix with warm water and 1 Malt can full of honey
add water in a crock to 5 gallons, you can use yeast, but I prefer to use a Quart of homebrew,
cover with cheesecloth, stand in a cool room until it stops working, then bottle and cap
And some people think brett beers are a recent fad.
#19
Posted 19 December 2014 - 04:33 AM
And some people think brett beers are a recent fad.
Wouldn't that be a Brett Braggott?
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