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In 1757, a colonel in the Virginia militia recorded the way that thirsty soldiers had made a DIY beverage with some water, hops, and molasses. The colonel: George Washington. Yes, the father of our country recorded instructions for making a very stiff beer. God bless America! Today, a
Kehoe found Washington’s formula for this brew favored by Colonial troops at the New York Public Library. “They’d drink half of a cask of porter, then add warm molasses and water steeped with bran oats,” he says. “In a few days, it’s carbonated beer.” Yards uses a similar method—minus the drinking, of course.
Based on Ben Franklin’s recipe for spruce-based beer, which Kehoe found a copy of at a museum. It was great for warding off scurvy—spruce is high in vitamin C—but it tastes terrible. To get the smell of Christmas without the taste of Pine-Sol, Yards steeps spruce and needles in the kettle late in the boil.
Kehoe studied the excavations of Jefferson’s beer cellar and pored over his farm records to reverse-engineer a fruity barley wine with a bracing 8 percent alcohol by volume. But Jefferson would scoff: His version was almost 13. The cofounder of the Democratic-Republican Party was a party animal.
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