https://www.historiceastfield.org/workshops/p/18th-century-brewing

Instructor: Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister

This one-day workshop will combine two popular programs, instruction and demonstrations on 18th century brewing and hands-on colonial cocktail building. Led by Michael Carver, the Regimental Brewmeister in period presentation, this workshop will introduce participants to the methods, brews, and experience of a brewer from 1778. You will hear stories of the American Revolution and the variety of ways beer aided in the health and spirits of revolutionaries. In the Cocktail building program, participants will learn the history of tavern and parlor cocktails in the 18th Century, including preparing several cocktails they might have encountered in a tavern in British Colonial America in the 1770s.

All participants must be 21+. Proof of age will be required.

Class Agenda:

  1. Introduction: High level overview of Tavern Culture in the 18th Century
  2. History of beer, wine, and spirits in Colonial America
  3. Antiscorbutic Preparations: How the Navy created the modern cocktail
    • First Cocktail preparation: Thomas Gimlette’s Gimlet
  4. Extending the Shelf-life of Beer and other Brews: Rattleskulls and Fences
    • Second Cocktail preparation: the Hawthorn Fence
  5. Medicinal Cocktails: Flips and Toddies
    • Third cocktail preparation: Hot Ale Flip
  6. Social Drinks: Cocktails of High Society
    • Final Cocktail preparation: Fish House Punch

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Published by Michael Carver

My goal is to bring history alive through interactive portrayal of ordinary American life in the late 18th Century (1750—1799) My persona are: Journeyman Brewer; Cordwainer (leather tradesman but not cobbler), Statesman and Orator; Chandler (candle and soap maker); Gentleman Scientist; and, Soldier in either the British Regular Army, the Centennial Army, or one of the various Militia. Let me help you experience history 1st hand!