Homemade

Guide to Homemade Wine, Beer, Cider & Mead

Alcoholic beverages; commonly beer and wines and made at home. Most often brews are made from brewing kits purchased at shops specialized in spirits. Cheap Draft features homebrew recipes, equipment requirements, and best practices needed to deliver the perfect batch!

Definitely a refresher beer.

• 2½ tablespoonsful spruce essence
• 1 lb. sugar
• 1 lb. pale malt extract
• ⅛ oz. citric acid or juice of 1 lemon - yeast - nutrient
• 2 gallons water

Put malt and sugar in boiler and add half a gallon of water, bring to boil and simmer for five minutes. Pour into fermenting vessel and add citric acid and spruce essence. Allow to cool to 65°-70°F and add yeast and nutrient. Cover as directed for other beers and allow to ferment as for these. This is best made as draught beer, therefore merely allow fermentation to go on until beer goes ‘flat’, and then bottle.

Best if kept for at least two weeks.

Spruce essence is available from any chemist.