1From 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...
2Memorandum 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
3From 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...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 14 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
5Joseph Miller to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; brewed at Monticello [index entry]
6Thomas 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]
7Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 8 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
as every day now presses for bottling cyder & beer,
8To John Jay from Maria Jay Banyer, 19 February 1816 (Jay Papers)
William Pitt Beers to
9Thomas 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.
10Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
alcohol; beer [index entry] beer; as alternative to whiskey [index entry]