"Diogenes" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:36:17 -0800, "Steve B" > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Tom Biasi" > wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:42:24 -0000, "john east"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Formula for beer from the year1825 has just been discovered in archives.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/889159-...r-for-just-11p
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>*** A recipe for beer made with treacle has been discovered - but no
>>>>one
>>>>knows just how strong it really is.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It was written by ale lover Thomas Denton, who was determined to
>>>>recreate
>>>>his favourite tipple, London Porter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>For 72 pints of stout, you will need a peck of barley, 4oz of hops, 7lb
>>>>of
>>>>treacle and several gallons of boiling water.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Mr Denton, of Goole, east Yorkshire, also recommended letting the potent
>>>>brew ferment for seven days.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sam Bartle, from East Riding's archive service, said: 'The instructions
>>>>are
>>>>quite simple but anyone wanting to try out the recipe would have to do
>>>>so
>>>>at
>>>>their own risk.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>'Following the recipe would produce a huge amount of beer, 72 pints, and
>>>>it
>>>>actually recommends a nine gallon cask for brewing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>'For it to be tried in most modern homes it would probably require some
>>>>scaling down of the quantities.'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/889159-...-------------1
>>>> Peck = 9.01 litres or 2 gallons.It looks easy to make and is ready in
>>>> seven days. To me it seems in-expensive to make, since treacle could be
>>>> purchased inbulk. Novice grateful for any tips on trying to make this
>>>> one. Thanks
>>>
>>> Doesn't sound very good, and only 4 Oz. of hops?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>>Awright. Turn in your beer drinking permission slip. Commenting on a
>>beer
>>you've never tasted is heresy in the beer world.
>>
>>I'd like to taste it, but only if someone else went to all the work, and I
>>didn't have to make a 9 gallon taste test.
>>
>>Beer drinkers have such a fine palate. I used to tend bar. Had a regular
>>who would come in, and order two beers because if I only brought him one,
>>he's be finished before I came round again. Nice gun, good tipper. Used
>>to
>>comment on how good his taster was. After three or four, I slipped him a
>>glass of something he didn't drink. How's that ****? Great, he said. I
>>told him that I had switched to a brand he expressly stated he didn't
>>like.
>>
>>Proved my point.
>
> Obviously you did, but afterwards was he *still* a good tipper?
>>
>
Yeah. He took it well.

Steve