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The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors watching beer fermenting in a large brewhouse. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Four brewers at work. Engraving, c. 1805.

African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.

Two pictures: two women pounding grain and African people brewing pombe. Lithograph with tint plate.

Technical mycology : the utilization of micro-organisms in the arts and manufactures a practical handbook on fermentation and fermentative processes, for the use of brewers and distillers, analysts, technical and agricultural chemists, pharmacists, and all interested in the industries dependent on fermentation / by Franz Lafar ; translated by Charles T.C. Salter.

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

The country brewer's assistant, and English Vintner's Instructor, in two parts. Part the first treating 1. The choice of Water, 2. Grinding the Malt, 3. Use and Nature of the Hops, 4. Instructions for private Families, 5. Brewling good Small-Beer. 6. General Instructions for brewing, 7. Mashing. 8. Cooling and Working, 9. Casking the Drink. Part the second Containing general Instructions for making English Wines, exemplified in a select Number of original choice Receipts for producing excellent Wines from the following British Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers: Grapes, Raspberries, Mulberries, Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries, Quinces, Damsins, Apricots, Elder Berries, Birch, Sage, Cowslips, Gilliflowers, Strawberries, Blackberries. To which are added, Two excellent Receipts for making Orange and Palermo Wines, With Instructions for making (after the most improved Method) Mead, Cyder, and Metheglin, The celebrated Irish and Green Usquebaughs, The admired Brunswick Mum (taken from the Record in the Town-House at Brunswick,) And the genuine Receipt for making Dr. Stevens's justly-famous Cordial Water. With an appendix, containing the Distiller's Assistant. By George Edmonds.

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

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A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.