Bobb25
Well-Known Member
Just a general question out of curiosity. When I mentioned that I was home brewing to my mother, who is 98 Y.O. she told the story of walking to the corner store for her mother to get supplies for her to brew beer for her dad. This would have been in the late 1920's probably. It was one of the cooking jobs that her mother did, they were polish immigrants. Anyway, she said one of the ingredients was a large ( 5-lb. ? ) bag of sugar. We don't add sugar to the modern all grain beers we brew, unless we are bottling. Why the difference?? As an aside, I asked her what kind of bottles the beer was placed in back then, and she said " canning jars, of course " .