As every real American can tell you, the most important quality in a President is their desirability as a drinking buddy. As such, George Washington's historic cool points just skyrocketed with the New York Public Library's release of his personal recipe for brewing your own beer.
A modified version of the recipe — to be clunkily known as Fortitude's Founding Father Brew — will be served at the Library's Centennial gala later this month and brewed in partnership with the Coney Island Brewing Company, but you can check out the original version below, transcribed from Washington's handwritten notes. It may or may not contain the word "bung." Anyway, here it is: