Spruce Beer

Ingredients

• 1 handful hops
• 2 handfuls sassafras root chippings
• 10 gallons water
• 1 gallon molasses
• 2 spoonfuls essence of spruce
• 2 spoonfuls powdered ginger
• 1 spoonful pounded allspice
• 1/2 pint good yeast

Instructions

1. Boil a handful of hops, and twice as much of the chippings of sassafras root, in ten gallons of water.
2. Strain it, and pour in, while hot, one gallon of molasses, two spoonsful of the essence of spruce, two spoonsful of powdered ginger, and one of pounded allspice.
3. Put it in a cask. When sufficiently cold, add half a pint of good yeast.
4. Stir it well and stop it close.
5. When fermented and clear, bottle and cork it tight.