[Gutenberg 56784] • The Theory and Practice of Brewing

PREFACE The difference that appears in the several processes of brewing, though executed with the same materials, by the same persons, and to the same intent, is generally ac~ knotoledged. The uneasiness this must occasion to those who are charged with the directive part of the business y cannot be small: and the more desirous they are of well executing the duty incumbent on than, the greater is their disappointment, whenfrustrated in their hopes. To remove this uncertainty, no method seems preferable ta (hat of experiments, as it is by this means alone, any art whatever can be established upon a solid foundation: hut these require caution, perseverance, and expence; they must be multiplied and varied both for the same and for different purposes. The operations of nature elude superficial enquiries, where we have few or no principles for our guides, many experiments are made, which tend only to confound or deceive Effects seen, -without a sufficient knowledge of their causes, often

**Table of Contents**

CONTENTS; Page; PART T; Explanation of tecJinicai terms, * I,; SECTION I; Of Fire,' 1$; SECTION II Of Air,19; SECTION III Of Water, 2 *; SECTION IV Of Earth, 33; SECTION V Of Menstruums or Dissolvents,„34; SECTION VI Of the Thermometer,, 39; SECTION VII Of the Vine, its fruits, and juices,, 50; SECTION VIIL Of fermentation in general, 66; SECTION IX Of artificial fermentation, ;r«v«* >G; SECTION X Of the nature of Barky, tv 6?; SECTION XI Of Malting;: 9*; •CONTENT S; SECTION XII Of the different Properties of Malt, and of the num-; ber of its fermentable Parts,, 113; SECTION XIII Observations on defective Malts, 131; PART II; SECTION I Of the heat of the Air, as it relates to the practical; part of Brewing, 1 145; SECTION II Of Grinding, 157; SECTION III Of Extraction, 160; SECTION IV Of the nature and properties