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Antique Handwritten Recipe for Making Beer Homebrew Prohibition Era Ephemera WGR

Approximately  8" by 10"

• ey Item Specifics

  • Type: Handwritten Recipe / Historical Paper Ephemera

  • Subject: Beer / Home Brewing / Alcohol / Brewing Recipe

  • Era: Early 20th Century (c. 1910s–1930s / Prohibition Era)

  • Material: Lined Notebook Paper, Ink

  • Original/Reproduction: Original

  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

  Item Description

  Overview

  Up for sale is a fascinating original vintage handwritten recipe titled "for Making Beer" (and signed off at the bottom as "for Making good Beer").

  Written in clear cursive ink on lined paper, this document offers a detailed step-by-step homebrew brewing recipe using hops, malt, sugar, crock fermentation, bottle priming, and yeast cakes. The reverse side features multiple handwritten annotations including "for Making Beer", "Keep this", and initials "W.G.R." / "W. G. Rice".

  A fantastic piece of early 20th-century homebrewing, Prohibition-era, or general alcohol history ephemera!

  Transcription

  for Making Beer

  one Box of hops you Boil 1. one hrs and 30 min

  one Can of Malt you Boil 10 min when Boiling Malt add 2 lbs of sugar. Boil Hops first then take the Hops out and put in a Crock. Then Boil Malt and mix with the Hop Water together. Then add Water to fill the Crock full let cool off and add the yeast and let it stand two or three days. Then when you Bottle it put one teaspoonful of sugar in each Bottle and let it stand two or three Weeks before drinking it.

  for 4 or 5 gals 3/4 of yeast cake

  8 or 10 gals one hole yeast cake

  W.G.R.

  for Making good Beer.

  W. G. Rice