Your host will be Todd Meyers of George Washington Brewery.
Todd is a local guy, he lives in Greenwich and brews his recipe in Pawtucket Ct. so everything about this beer is Hometown and small batch.
George Washington $9.49/6pb
Craft brewed for the mainstream, gw Beer is a golden amber American Pale Ale, lightly malty, with a smooth balance of toasted caramel sweetness and American hop flavor and aroma.
From the 12 fl. oz. bottle with Mar 2012 clipped off the label. According to the the label is is based on George Washington's handwritten recipe. It is a typical straw yellow pale lager pour with a lot of long lasting head and excited carbonation. It does not smell like a beer from 1757. It smells more like a modern Adjunct with grainy, light roasted malts and sugar. The body is thin. The taste is also very much like barkey malts, slightly sweet, and crispy fresh at the end. An innocuous, likeable, and drinkable pale lager.
Speaking with Todd (The owner and brewmaster) we learned that he thought the original recipe could use a bit of modification so he went to work trying to create a beer that would give a nod to the history of the recipe but target the mainstream beer drinker. This is a brand new brewery here in Connecticut, so Stop by and take a minute to let him know how he did.
The original recipe:
"To Make Small Beer-
Take a large Siffer [Sifter] full of Bran Hops to your Taste. Boil these 3 hours then strain out 30 Gall[ons] into a cooler put in 3 Gall[ons] Molasses while the Beer is Scalding hot or rather draw the Melasses (sic) into the cooler & St[r]ain the Beer on it while boiling Hot. let this stand till it is little more than Blood warm then put in a quart of Yea[s]t if the Weather is very Cold cover it over with a Blank[et] & let it Work in the Cooler 24 hours then put it into the Cask—leave the bung open till it is almost don[e] Working—Bottle it that day Week it was Brewed."
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