1From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 30 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
...I am sure you will consider rather as occasions of exercising your benevolence than as burthens. I had engaged a most excellent Brewer to furnish our boarding houses at the University, and the town of Charlottesville with malt table–beer. he knew the place well, and that it which is much more than necessary for table beer
2Memorandum Books, 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
thought that this wine, diluted with water, might make a cheaper table drink than cider or beer (TJ to Dodge & Oxnard, 6 June 1824; TJ to Bernard Peyton, 21 Nov. 1824;
3From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Dodge, 6 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
...your vin ordinaire such as you drink with water at your own tables. I found the wines of that description so cheap, even at Paris, that they would make a cheaper table drink here than even our cyder & beer. they must however be strong enough to bear the voyage in a cask. it is for experiment. I salute you with great esteem & respect
...place in her daughter Mrs Sterling who we saw in England, in a very amasing way; and declared that even her walk and her talk was altered—She attributed this metamorphosis to the good english Beer—Coachy has discovered a new way of getting a holyday on Sunday—the Horses are taken sick every Saturday Eveng. In every other respect he has proved a useful and attentive Servant—My music has...
5To James Madison from Adam Cooke, 31 January 1822 (Madison Papers)
Cash for 10 Galls Beer @ ⅔ Keg 4/6
6Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
wheat; for brewing beer [index entry]
7To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1820 (Madison Papers)
For JM’s experiments in substituting beer for whiskey for his slaves, see Ketcham, “An Unpublished Sketch of James Madison by James K. Paulding,”
8Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 11 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
9From John Adams to Vine Utley, 10 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
When I was in Europe, that is in France and Holland, I followed my system as well as I could—my beverage being the light Wines of France well soaked in water; because Beer, and Cider, were not to be had.—
10Vine Utley to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
beer &c. &c.& beer
11Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
a glass of wine nor to drink of the common beverages of beer or cyder; and added that
12Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 30 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall want a supply of good corks to bottle our beer and cyder, as soon as they can be got. it is so provoking to lose good liquor by bad corks, and so uncertain to get them good from
13From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 17 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
...thence being made in sugar, cotton, wool, tobacco, and such like commodities, which they first receive from some other of his Majesty’s plantations in barter for dry cod fish, salt machrel, beef, pork, bread, beer, flour,
14Reuben Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia Beer
15John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; porter [index entry]
16Richard Flower to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Observations on Beer and Brewers, in which the Inequality, Injustice, and Impolicy, of the Malt and Beer Tax, are Demonstrated
17From John Adams to Nathaniel Gorham, 28 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
Chymists! Pursue your Experiments with indefatigable Ardour and perseverance. Give Us the best possible Bread Butter and Cheese, Wine Beer and Cyder, Houses Ships and Steamboats, Gardens Orchards Fields, not to mention Cloths or Cooks. If your Investigations lead Accidentally to any deep discovery, rejoice, and cry Eureka! But never institute any Experiment with a View...
18Memorandum Books, 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
’s malt and hops purchases of 1812 indicate early experiments in brewing, the first successful production of beer at thereafter conducted the spring and fall malting and brewing operations and annually produced about two hundred gallons of beer, made from either malted corn or wheat (Stanley Baron, Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States
19From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
...Fellow, was perpetually teizing me about my Pedigree; I told him, I knew nothing about it; but that I was an Englishman of King Charles the firsts days; that I was made of English Beer, for my Ancestors had been Maltsers from the Beginning in America, Maltsers! Said Sir John, “I know what that means” there is nothing more characteristick of an English Country Gentleman. Walking one day...
20Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 14 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
21Joseph Miller to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
22Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Bottle and Beverage Supplies, 6 October 1814–February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; jugs for [index entry] household articles; beer jugs [index entry]
23Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 8 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
as every day now presses for bottling cyder & beer,
24To John Jay from Maria Jay Banyer, 19 February 1816 (Jay Papers)
William Pitt Beers to
25Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be glad to have them on his return as the season for bottling beer & cyder is approaching.
26Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; as alternative to whiskey [index entry]
27Joseph Coppinger to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
...be tanned in three or four days rather than six to eight months, with corresponding increases in the return on capital; promising that the volume will include “the whole process of brewing Porter, Pale Ale, Table Beer, &c., of the best quality”; and concluding with a table of contents and a place to inscribe the name, residence, and number of copies ordered by subscribers (undated...
28Joseph Miller to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
29Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 26 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband); beer for [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
30Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coppinger, 25 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States