Anyone have pointers on where/how to find historical beer recipes? These could be from old breweries or family recipes. Thanks.
Some of his books have North American recipes.
I just wish the author of https://oldbeersandbrewing.blogspot.com/ would present the recipe directions to be more in line with modern homebrewing practices.
And Ron’s book (which you can find on the website published) “The Homebrewer’s Guide to Vintage Beer” is a great one. I have made some delicious beers from that book and I normally don’t use other folks recipes preferring to write my own.
I have that book, also. I usually do one recipe/year from that book with good results,
+1 for Barclay Perkins. That’s Ron’s thing - researching and publishing historic recipes.
Try horscategoriebrewing.com for a Franco-Belgian perspective. He’s no longer updating but there’s a lot of interesting info still there.
Also, for some (pre)historic beers, check out Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created by Patrick E. McGovern.
barclay perkins for sure, or simply buying a large amount of some 2row barley malt, toasting some, making homemade crystal if you want etc. i think that would be the key thing in pre-industrial brewing. the physical act of dealing with the malt., potentially not using hops. i think do research on the evolution of beer and you can figure out something that interests you in creating.
anyone done any barclay perkins recipes to the letter?