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the brewers'
I borrowed "The Brewer's companion"
By Randy Mosher. A few days ago, from RM.
Reading it at work tonight, it made me bust out laughing.
Here is the quote that had me bustin out loud.
"The first European brewer in North America was Sir Walter Raleigh, who malted maize for beer in
1587.
The use of maize has remained a distinctly American brewing tradition, not to our credit.
The pilgrim fathers recorded their reason for landing on Plymouth Rock: they were out of beer,
and needed to stop to make some more, right then and there. Indeed, the first permanent structure they built was the brewery."
A little American history for ya, lol America was founded to build a brewery. The landing on Plymouth
was to make beer.
If they hadn't run out of brew, who know where they would have ended up.
That's just funny.
Americans do love their brew. lmao!
The guys at work got a pretty good kick out of it.
Marv.
I'm pretty sure a lot of ships back then carried quite a few barrels of beer around. Water was often suspected as being unclean and a carrier of diseases, whereas beer was always considered safe to drink.
Just like when you're in Mexico.
It was the alcohol that made it safe to drink.
Didn't know that till I started to read the book, I always thought it was the boiling that
made it safe.
Marv.
In that case, I'm surprised that beer isn't featured more in the traditional images of Thanksgiving.
Good for Sir Walter Raleigh...
Hops contribute some antimicrobial properties as well.
You've also got a pH that favors yeast, even wort is pretty hostile to most microbes, other than yeasts and a select group of spoilage organisms.
I've checked at the library for a similar book and it seems to be on loan for the last six months. What else should I try to rent?
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