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ACIDS, what, 2
Air, principal agent in fermentation, 19, 23
—— why it slacks malt, 20
—— is not easily expelled from bodies, 21
—— expelled from worts by long boiling, 84
—— heat of, relative to brewing, 145
Alcohol, what, 2
—— most effectually dissolves resins, 38
Algebraic rules of proportion for mixing cold and hot water, 271-285
Alkali, what, 2
—— its great power as a solvent, 37
B.
Backs being set, reason, 306
Barley, defined, 89
—— viscous and replete with acids, 90
—— consequence of its germinating, 90
—— its state in the field, 91
—— Effect of heating in the mow, 92
—— heat which destroys its vegetative power, 92, 93
—— mow-burned, unfit for malting, 93
—— how much it loses by malting, 100
—— may be dried without germinating, 102
Beers, why deposited in cellars, 47
—— best brewed in pure air, 85, 86
Bird, Mr. his thermometer, 43
Body of a wort not opened, what, 320, 321
Boiling, how effected, 3
—— necessary for worts, and management, 224
Brandies of France and Spain compared, 353
Brown ale, what, 198
—— stout, what, 199
Burton ale, what, 196
C.
Cellars, temperature, 156, 186
—— management of beer, 331
Cleansing keeping beers, 319
—— common small, 321
—— amber, 325
Cloudy beer, how to be treated, 337
Cocculus Indicus, infamous practice of using it, 340
Cold greatest, at London, 145
Cooling-in explained, 339
Steeping barley, how practised in the north, 94
Stock of beer proper, 331
Stubborn beers, how to be treated, 337
T.
Table of changes of color in malt by heat, 115
—— shewing the age beers will require with medium heats, 119
—— shewing the tendency beers have to become fine, 124
—— shewing medium heat at London at eight in the morning, 148
Table shewing medium heat of the air at London, 150
—— of incidents affecting heat in brewing, 155
—— shewing proper dryness of malt, 162
—— shewing the quantity of fermentable principles residing in malt, 168
—— to determine heat of first and last extract, 170
—— ditto for porter, 175
—— shewing color of grain, 184
—— shewing medium heat of each process, 185
—— shewing heat of first and last extracts in common small beer, 191
—— shewing value of hops in degrees, 208
—— shewing the quantity of hops to a quarter of malt in porter, 209
—— ditto common small beer, 210
—— —— amber, 211
—— —— Burton ale, 212
—— shewing the medium price hops should bear, 215
—— of lengths, 219
—— of gauges of coppers, 221
—— of time of boiling each beer, 228
—— of volume of malt to reduce grist to liquid measure, 254
—— shewing great evaporation of water in brewing, 256
—— shewing volume of malt equal to one barrel of water, 267
—— of effervescence of malt, 292
—— shewing the times worts should be let down, 308
—— shewing heat at which they should be let down, 309
—— shewing depth of head in cleansing small beer, 321
—— determining taste of malt liquors, 345
Taste, reason of the difference in malt liquors, 342
Technical terms explained, 1-12
Thermometer, when first known in England, 39
—— its improvements, 40-43
—— assists to discover the heat of bodies when blended, 45
—— discovers the strength of a wort, 47
—— —— quality of hops,

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