num_pages: 228
description: A manual dedicated to recreating the brewed beverages that existed in the American Colonies. All of the historic recipes were documented as dating from 1800 or earlier and all were taste-tested. The book consists of more than fifty recipes for ale beer mead hard cider and mixed drinks including an award winning recipe for porter. Along with the recipes is a how-to chapter on brewing. There is an additional chapter on non-alcoholic brews such as tea and coffee and herbalsubstitutes for both. Plus a section on making non-alcoholic beer and carbonated soft drinks.
language: English
title: Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past
publisher: Universal Publishers