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Virginia brewery taps 300-year-old beer recipe
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| December 4, 2014
| Michael Felderbaum
Posted on 12/05/2014 7:35:05 AM PST by C19fan
What do you get when you combine water, American persimmons and hops and ferment it with yeast? A beer based on a 300-year-old recipe scribbled in a cookbook kept by Virginia's prominent Randolph family.
Ardent Craft Ales in Richmond recently brewed "Jane's Percimon Beer" unearthed from the book in the Virginia Historical Society's collections from the 1700s that contains food, medicinal remedies and beer recipes. The formula for the Colonial-era concoction is one of thousands of alcoholic recipes in the society's collection that provide a glimpse into what Virginians and others were drinking in the 18th century and other points in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Food; History
KEYWORDS: beer; colonial; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; virginia; zymurgy
Cool! They should sell that beer at Colonial Williamsburg. Mount Vernon rebuilt Washington's distillery and you can buy whiskey made there using to the best of their ability the recipe Washington used.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:35:05 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
but I am not allowed to drink
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:36:36 AM PST
by
Friendofgeorge
(I AM OFFICER DARREN....CRUZ 2016 OR BUST)
To: C19fan
New headline:
Virginia Brewer Taps 300-year old!
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I can’t believe you didn’t ping Laz with that response.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:42:24 AM PST
by
dangerdoc
((this space for rent))
To: C19fan
I’ve eaten an overripe persimmon and an underripe persimmon. Neither was very good but believe me, you do not want to eat an underripe persimmon.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:57:30 AM PST
by
Mercat
("The sisters did not want to save the world. Someone already had.")
To: C19fan
Gunter:
He stole it und now instead of Deutschland's greatest beer we merely have fourth best behind Steinemarzen, Rottenburger, und... und...Otto: Und Beck's?
Gunter: Und Beck's? Ja, und Beck's!
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posted on
12/05/2014 8:09:24 AM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: C19fan
ya think Hillary will switch???
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posted on
12/05/2014 8:10:06 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Mercat
I have too. Ripe persimmons are nothing to write home about. They might make good beer.
Under ripe? Talk about pucker factor, WOW!
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posted on
12/05/2014 8:18:58 AM PST
by
painter
( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
To: C19fan
If ya get the chance try some apple pie shine. Delicious
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posted on
12/05/2014 8:22:01 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks C19fan .
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posted on
12/07/2014 9:38:48 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Mercat
Ive eaten an overripe persimmon and an underripe persimmon. Neither was very good but believe me, you do not want to eat an underripe persimmon. That's pucker-power that puts a lemon to shame!
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posted on
12/07/2014 9:42:43 PM PST
by
Ken H
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