directions
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1
To 1 gallon water heated to boiling add sugar, rice, salt and malt
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2
Heat, stirring all the time, until it just comes to a boil
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3
Pour into 4 gallons of cold water already placed in the crock
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4
Stir and add 1 package of dry yeast, (or fresh dissolved in luke warm water)
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5
Cover with cloth
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6
Skim as needed and bottle when it has finished working but is just sparkling (3 to 5 days). Never let the first high foam turn over into the beer
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7
Skim off the foam and syphon the brew carefully to avoid stirring the sediment
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8
If it is bottled while still working it will burst the bottles and if there are too many sparkles it will be all foam when bottles are opened
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9
(Four or five sparkles a minute is about right)
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10
If it goes flat, bottle and put 1/4 teaspoon sugar in each bottle before you cap it
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11
Let stand 3 to 6 days
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12
The longer the better.
TOMBSTONE HOME BREW
ingredients
- 1 Jive gallon crock
- 1 three Joot syphon hose
- 1 bottle capper
- 1 box bottle caps
- 50 beer bottles
- 2 1/2 pounds sugar
- 1 cup rice,
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 can red top malt.