The New York Public Library asked local brewery Talea to make a beer from George Washington’s original recipe, which they have in their collection. Jonathan Blanc/NYPL
Jonathan Blanc/NYPL
Beer, it turns out, was important to early American armies. So important that George Washington scrawled a recipe for “small beer” in a notebook in 1757, when he was a colonel in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War.
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