Beer! It's as American as apple pie. Or maybe its English? Or German? OK - Colonial Beer has a bit of an identity crisis. Can you call it beer if it doesn't even contain malted grain?
Anyway spruce is the trendy thing - or hop tea? Anyway, there's not much dry hopping because the little buggers are expensive, the best way to get the most power out of them is to boil the dickens out of them... right?
Look - lots was going on in 18th century beer. Come along and find out. And discover if you would have been a dirty Royalist hop importer or a rustic home brewer.
Beer! It's as American as apple pie. Or maybe its English? Or German? OK - Colonial Beer has a bit of an identity crisis. Can you call it beer if it doesn't even contain malted grain?
Anyway spruce is the trendy thing - or hop tea? Anyway, there's not much dry hopping because the little buggers are expensive, the best way to get the most power out of them is to boil the dickens out of them... right?
Look - lots was going on in 18th century beer. Come along and find out. And discover if you would have been a dirty Royalist hop importer or a rustic home brewer.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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