MONTGOMERY, Ohio — JC Jordan is always cleaning. So much so, he sometimes feels like a janitor.

Once an engineer, he now makes beer at MPH Brewing . And his No. 1 job is to keep the mold away — especially in the summer. Jordan tells me this, standing over a few kegs he’s trying to get the gas out of.

“I cleaned most of these yesterday,” Jordan said. “And then today, I fill them back up.”

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He takes some to a cooler near the kitchen, and he rolls a few more behind the bar.

“My job is mostly to make the yeast happy,” Jordan said. “Because it does the real work.”

Work that now involves making a beer that tastes like something people drank hundreds of years ago. At least as close as he can get.

Jordan got the recipe from a

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