1885 New Guide Hotel Bar Restaurant

THE NEW GUIDE FOR HOTELS, ETC.

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By the way, there is one more receipt for spruce beer, which I must not omit, and then I will close my remarks on the Heal of all the nations.*' Spruce,

Spruce Beer.

The present

receipt was given to me by an English for a long time connected with a celebrated firm

Brewer,

of brewers, in the Midland Counties.

Boil a wort of water,

Stir the whole time till the sugar is

9 gallons, sugar 28 lbs.

dissolved, and reduce to 7 gallons. Then put into the mash tub 2 pints of spruce chips, cut from the centre of a spruce block. Pour the hot wort on this, cover it up, and let it infuse till it is cold ; remove the chips, which can have been put in a long loose net, like a cabbage net, only much finer; then ferment with yeast, draw off— colour with very strong caramel, put into the cask, and it will be ready for drawing in about a month.