This looks like a good spot to share my great-granddad's or my granddad's recipe written in one of their Denver Live Stock Commission Company Tally and Brand books. This is copyrighted as it is going to be in the family history book I am writing. Anyway, they call it "Home Brew" but I think it might be better to clean something on the outside with it, rather than the inside.:-)

Home Brew
by L.D. & Frank Hudson
Sundown Buttes Ranch
New Castle, CO
circa 19teens

Chase wild bull frogs three miles and gather the hops.
To them add ten gallons of tan bark,
half a pint of shellac and one bar of homemade soap.
Boil 36 hrs. and strain thru (sic) an I.W.W. sock to keep it from working.
Add one grasshopper to each pint to give it a kick.
Pour a little into the kitchen sink.
If it takes the enamel off, it is ready for bottling.

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