Cast all things so that this may be done when you are going
to bed. Next morning when you rise, you will find the barm gathered all
together in the middle; scum it clean off with a silver-spoon and a
feather, and bottle up the Liquor, stopping it very close. It will be ready
to drink in two or three days; but it will keep well a month or two. It
will be from the first very quick and pleasant.
MR. WEBB'S ALE AND BRAGOT
Five Bushels of Malt will make two Hogsheads. The first running makes one
very good Hogshead, but not very strong; the second is very weak. To this
proportion boil a quarter of a Pound of Hops in all the water that is to
make the two Hogsheads; that is, two Ounces to each Hogshead. You put your
water to the Malt in the Ordinary way. Boil it well, when you come to work
it with yest, take very good Beer-yest, not Ale-yest.
To make Bragot, He takes the first running of such Ale, and boils a less
proportion of Honey in it, then when He makes His ordinary Meath; but
dubble or triple as much spice and herbs. As for Example to twenty Gallons
of the Strong-wort, he puts eight or ten pound, (according as your taste
liketh more or less honey) of honey; But at least triple as much herbs, and
triple as much spice as would serve such a quantity of small Mead as He
made Me (For to a stronger Mead you put a greater proportion of Herbs and
Spice, then to a small; by reason that you must keep it a longer time
before you drink it; and the length of time mellows and tames the taste of
the herbs and spice).
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