To fine Ale

Item

Title

To fine Ale

Date

en 1694/1795

Transcript

To fine Ale-
[inserted left margin: [[illegible] of 24] When your Ale has worked sufficiently out of the Barrel, and is fit to make up, You must brew again. When yr Liquor is cold, put it into Your working Tub, and put the Grounds through a Flannil Bag, and when your Liquor is fit to turn, put three Gallons of it to those Grounds with two pounds of the best Hops. Let it stand in a [illegible] three days, stirring it once a Day, then draw of your first Brewing Swill out your Barrel make up the Sap hole, [illegible] it well then put that mixture into yr Barrel and put the Ale to it, make it up close. In two or three months it will be fit for use. This quantity of the mixture is for a Hogshead, which we make of eight Bushels of Malt: the grounds must be taken from the same quantity of Malt. When you tap off Barrel, if you wd keep it fresh, you must not suffer the [illegible] to be touched, [illegible] the last tap will be as good as the first- Mrs Hulls[illegible]

Contributor

Caylor, Karmen
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.