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This is an elaborate treatise on how to brew beer. That art is as noble today as it was in 1761, when this book was first published, and Mr. Combrune was a master of his art. After reading his work on this topic, a glass of beer can be enjoyed on quite a different level.
- Chapters
- An Explanation of the Technical Terms
- Of Fire
- Of Air
- Of Water
- Of Earth
- Of Menstruums or Dissolvents
- Of the Thermometer
- Of the Vine, its Fruits, and Juices
- Of Fermentation in General
- Of Artificial Fermentation
- Of the Nature of Barley
- Of Malting
- Of the Different Properties of Malt, and of the Number of its Fermentable Parts
- Observations on Defective Malts
- The Practice of Brewing
- Of the Heat of the Air
- Of Grinding
- Of Extraction, part 1
- Of Extraction, part 2
- Of the Nature and Properties of Hops
- Of the Lengths Necessary to Form Malt-Liquors of the Several Denominations
- Method of Calculating the Height in the Copper at which Worts Are to Go out
- Of Boiling
- Of the Quantity of Water wasted; and of the Application of the preceding Rules to two different processes of Brewing
- Of the Division of the Water for the respective Worts and Mashes, and of the Heat adequate to each of these
- An enquiry into the Volume of Malt, in order to reduce the Grist to liquid Measure
- Of the Proportion of cold Water to be added to that which is on the point of Boiling, in Order to obtain the desired heat in the Extract
- Of Mashing
- Of the Incidents, which cause the Heat of the Extract to vary from the Calculation, the allowances they require, and the means to obviate their effects
- Of the disposition of the Worts when turned out of the Copper, the thickness they should be laid at in the Backs to cool, and the heat they should retain for fermentation, under the several circumstances
- Of Yeast, its nature, and contents, and of the manner and quantities in which it is to be added to the worts
- Of practical Fermentation, and the management of the several sorts of Malt Liquors, to the period, at which they are to be cleansed or put into the Casks
- Of the signs generally directing the processes of Brewing, and their comparison with the forgoing Theory and Practice
- An enquiry into what may be, at all times, a proper stock of Beer, and the management of it in the cellars
- Of Precipitation, and other remedies, applicable to the diseases incident to Beers
- Of Taste
- Appendix