My inlaws passed away about 4 years ago, and as we were cleaning out the house, there was a hutch with a bunch of cookbooks, and magazine recipes. Basically, we just moved the whole hutch, and never went through that drawer.
Until last week.
And what did I find? You guessed it, a home typed (remember typerwriters?) reciped for homebrew. I’ts got to be from the late 50’s - early 60’s based on what I know about the in-laws. I knew they used to make wine, but I nver knew about the beer. Anyway, two pages, neatly typed recipe and insttructions. And of course now I want to brew this recipe.
Or maybe not. I’m not sure what “beer settler” is. Maybe a fining?
I’ll see if I can get scanned and post here somehow, but the recipe is basically:
I’ve heard a rumor (totally a rumor, no supporting evidence at all) that at least some of the fleischmans bread yeasts are the same yeasts budweiser uses.
I remember an article stating the Fleischmann’s compressed fresh yeast was Budweiser yeast. I don’t know anything about the dry yeast. Nevertheless I pitched a package of Fleischmann’s Active Dry yeast recently in a funky beer right before bottling this week.
You may be right Denny. After looking at that recipe, I did realize how far the homebrewing industry has advanced. Of course by the time I started back in 2002 or so, we already had so many more, good ingridients.
I give props to anyone that was brewing when the only options were that malt syrup and bread yeast. That’s a true love of home brew.
It had nothing to do with love for many. $$$ My cousin’s college roommate “Corny” (and we’re not talking kegs here) put himself through college by brewing.