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For JM’s experiments in substituting beer for whiskey for his slaves, see Ketcham, “An Unpublished Sketch of James Madison by James K. Paulding,”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
31Joseph Coppinger to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
purposes of the Distillery can be converted into good Malt and made a valuable addition to Brewing materials. Another is a simple, and easy process of making beer, only a week brewed, assume all the appearances of age, possessing flavour, and above all the preserving quality so essential to good beer. A third process is mak ...preserving beer from bran and Shorts without Malt, this Process in...
32Enclosure: Joseph Coppinger’s Plan for a Brewing Company, [ca. 6 April 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
...an accumulating fund to enable the company to give premiums to the best brewer and the best Malster to be found in a given section of every state in the Union who may Produce the best Malt and the best beer within that district or section, which should be satisfactorily ascertained to the Company who may further advantageously publish every Six or twelve months one V
33Francis C. Gray’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [4–7 February 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
beer &
34Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 6 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
he brings 2. barrels containing bottled beer, to be put into the cellar, and let the beer be put into the cellar immediately, for fear of it’s freezing, setting the proper head of the barrels uppermost,
35Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; jugs for [index entry] household articles; beer jugs [index entry]
36Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; jugs for [index entry] household articles; beer jugs [index entry]
37Thomas Jefferson to Richard Randolph, 27 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now engaged in brewing a year’s supply of malt strong beer, which however I have no chance of saving but by a supply of quart jugs from you. I recieved (I think) 10½ dozen. and must ask the favor of 4. gross more for which
38Richard Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
beer; jugs for [index entry] household articles; beer jugs [index entry]
39Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
for 2. gross of beer-jugs &
40Thomas Jefferson to Richard Randolph, 25 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to send me two gross of your beer jugs; the one gross to be quart jugs, and the other pottle d
41To James Madison from Thomas Hirst, 28 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
...in Charleston, the safe return of which to this city would partly remunerate me for these losses, I purchased the Sloop Polly Captain Carr, and freighted her for South Carolina, with iron, beer, paper, brushes, confectionary &c. all articles of a perishable nature, and belonging to citizens of the United States. The sloop, having no more than the necessary provisions, was cleared out...
42Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Moore, 2 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
how to malt and brew beer. With TJ’s assistance Miller returned to , corresponded with TJ until at least 1819, and occasionally sent him corks for his beer bottles (The Philosophy of Making Beer
43Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 17 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
had brewed beer
at
The Philosophy of Making
Beer
44From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
...glasses of good madeira wine every day, but after the cough became troublesome he abstained from wine intirey, and for two months before his sickness he even deny’d himself the use of small table beer of which he was fond, and always used at his dinner. I remonstrated against this plan and said that I thought his labors and his advancing years required more generous living—He said it agreed...
45From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
...Pole was drawn to its appointed Place on the Summit of the Hill by the help of Savages males and females, with Sound of Guns Drums, Pistols and other Instruments of Musick. A Barrel of excellent Beer was brewed, and a Case of Bottles, (of Brandy I Suppose) with other good Chear, and English Men and Indians Sannups and Squaws, danced and sang and revelled round the Maypole till Bacchus and...
46John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Guns Drums, Pistols and other Instruments of Musick. A Barrel of excellent Beer was brewed, and a Case of Bottles, (of Brandy I Suppose) with other good Chear, and English Men and Indians Sannups and Squaws, danced and Sang and revelled
47From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...Value of it: but I Should as Soon think of asking them to Sell me two Pounds of thier Flesh like Shylock. On thier first Settlement they erected a Malthouse pro more Anglicano, which converted Barley into Beer for the whole Town and Neighbourhood. Many a time when I was a little Boy have I carried Barley for my Father to be malted by my Great Uncle, Captain and Deacon Peter Adams, who used...
48Thomas Jefferson: Memorandum to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 12 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
bottle the beer
49John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
porter (beer) [index entry]
50Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 13 December [1810] (Jefferson Papers)
porter (beer) [index entry]