WASHINGTON PUT MOLASSES IN HIS; THEN LET IT WORK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17830, 26 April 1926, Page 5

WASHINGTON PUT MOLASSES IN HIS; THEN LET IT WORK.

WETS READ GEORGE’S RECIPE FOR BEER. WASHINGTON, March 1. Lacking an. official opinion on its legality, but facing* a suggestion by Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, that it would be unlawful, the second “face-the-facts” conference of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment heard read the text of a beer recipe written by George Washington when he was a Virginian Colonel. The reading, done by Representative Hill, Republican, Maryland, prominent wet leader in Congress, followed distribution at the afternoon meeting of programs on which the recipe was printed. The menu cards for the banquet also carried the recipe, which follows: Take a large sifter full of bran, hops to your taste—boil these three hours, then strain out thirty gallons in a cooler. Put in three gallons molasses while beer is scalding hot, or rather draw the molasses in a 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 twenty-four hours, then put it into the cask. Leave the bung open until it is almost done working—bottle it that day week it was brewed.