Post #131711 by Mai Tai on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 5:01 AM

On 2004-12-12 11:16, Gigantalope wrote:
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Samule Smiths makes great stuff to be sure (with the exception of a Lager I once had...vile stuff that)

Don't they have a preperation sugestion involving placing a hot fire poker in the poued ale to carmalize it or some such?

Ah, that is called "flip". It is an old practice that dates back to Revolutionary War times - during the cold winter months in the Northeast colonies, the beer taverns would put a raw egg in the beer mug with the beer (and sometimes sugar too and maybe cream?). You'd then take the beer over to the tavern's fireplace, and shove the red hot fire poker that had been resting in the fire into your beer tankard. This process made the the beer, raw egg, and sugar combo instantly foam up and spill out, or "flip" out of your beer tankard. It became a favorite wintertime beer drink back in Colonial times - supposedly George Washington was a big flip drinker.

I've never tried making this, although I've wanted to for a while, but I do have a couple of original old flip recipies around here somewhere, if anyone is interested, although I think the method described above pretty much describes about 99% of the recipe. However, the recipies would be in some random box with about 95% of all my other stuff since I just moved - I'll have to dig them out.