So they discovered this ancient yeast, and the first thing they do is make some beer.....I like these guys!
I recreate colonial wines. Very full bodied and dry. For the wine supposedly included in Washington’s Valley Forge encampment, I used choke cherries, elderberries, and a pinot noir type grape. I add back blackberry for a second fermentation kick. Very warming going down. About 18% alcohol. Washington kept meticulous notes on beer and wine recepies.
When Washington and the colonies ran out of grain stocks to make beer they used just about anything not nailed down. One batch the founding fathers all shared in lean times was just molasses, candied orange peel, coriander, and wild hops. It is said it was better than no beer. I really think that was the passion of our founding fathers. They met to drink and talk.
Fauxohontas has recently been heard exclaiming she loves this particular beer.
‘I like these guys!’
Just from the picture, they are certainly not soy-boys - these are REAL MEN brewing beer. The world needs more them!