A Home Brewers Guide to the art of Brewing Your Own PRIVATE Supply of Tasty Beer (English Edition)

IT has been long said, that " Every old woman knows how to brew," whilst the Breweries have been held almost in abhorrence, and even charged with dispensing poison to the public. The knowledge of the first position is easily appreciated, for, good or bad, foxed or sweet, thick or fine, still it is home-brewed beer, and it must be wholesome ; for the truth of the other, I can only appeal to the smooth-cheeked, full-bellyed parties who smoke round ail alehouse table, and to the appearance of those poor emaciated creatures, called brewer's servants, who do some trifling labour, such as laying down butts of porter, for sixteen and eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, which labour they bear, at least, without sinking under it. In order to explain this matter in the best light, and take a fair view of the subject, it will be well to examine into the history of the Brewery for some time back.