Colonial Beer Making Kit

Whole leaf Hops Tea, 1 oz., Pure Blackstrap Molasses, 0.3 oz., Yeast,  Sorbitan monostearate 0.3 Oz. Sunflower Seeds, Pupkin Seeds, Squash Seeds, Peanuts.   

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Beer was a colonial favorite, along with chocolate drinks and raspberry tea, often sweetened with maple sugar. Drinks with a higher alcohol content would have been served to the Washington family and guests. Small beer, meanwhile, named
for its low alcohol content, was enjoyed by militiamen, servants, enslaved workers, and children as a regular beverage. Our recipe is adapted from a handwritten entry in George Washington’s French and Indian War journal “To make
small beer” when the future president would have been in his mid-20’s.

Here's George Washington’s original recipe:

To Make Small Beer

Take a large sifter full of bran hops to your taste. Boil these 3 hours. Then strain out 30 gallons into a cooler. Put in 3 gallons molasses while the beer is scalding hot or rather draw the molasses into the cooler and strain the beer on it while boiling hot. Let this stand till it is little more than blood warm.
Then put in a quart of yeast. If the weather is very cold cover it over with a blanket and let it work in the cooler 24 hours. Then put it into the cask. Leave the bung open till it is almost done working. Bottle it that day week it was brewed.