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A storm brewing over a German (?) landscape: two riders in the foreground. Engraving by J. Pye, 1774, after Duytsch.
Duytsch.Date: 1st January 1774Reference: 524676i- Books
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A guide to gentlemen and farmers, for brewing the finest malt-liquors, much better and cheaper than hitherto known. Shewing What Care is to be taken in the Choice of Water, Malt, and Hops: And in what Proportions they are to be mixed, boyled, and fermented, for making the best March or October Beer, Strong Ale, &c. Also Particular Directions for the right managing all Brewing Utensils. By a country gentleman.
Country Gentleman.Date: 1724- Books
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Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: 1777- Books
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Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: 1777- Books
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Fermented liquors : a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general / by Lewis Feuchtwanger.
Feuchtwanger, Lewis, 1805-1876.Date: 1858- Books
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Theoretic hints of an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops, The Doctrine of Fermentation, The Agency of Air, The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: 1777- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Ian Heilbron, Director of Laboratories of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Organic Chemistry Deparment
Date: Oct 1948Reference: UGC 198/2/2/6/1Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
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A treatise on strong beer, ale, &c. Fully explaining the art of brewing, in the best manner; interspersed with observations, introductory to national benefit; and shewing the absurdity of perverting the ancient British customs. By T. Poole, butler to the Right Honourable Lady Jane and Sir Willoughby Aston, bart.
Poole, T.Date: 1783- Books
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A treatise on strong beer, ale, &c. Fully explaining the art of brewing, in the best manner; interspersed with observations, introductory to national benefit; and shewing the absurdity of perverting the ancient British customs. By T. Poole, butler to the Right Honourable Lady Jane and Sir Willoughby Aston, bart.
Poole, T.Date: 1783- Pictures
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A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 10 June 1806Reference: 25938i- Books
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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.
Edmonds, George, active 1769.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A saving of twenty per cent. A treatise on the brewing of beer, & porter, wherein is proved that one bushel of malt will produce a gallon of beer more than another bushel of an equal strength, although both malts be made of one sort or species of barley. In this work will be found some profitable and necessary directions to maltsters. Improvements in the brew-house, and brewing utensils. Showing the cause what makes hard and four beer. Directions for preventing bear from becoming four or foxed, even if brewed in the warmest season, also directions in what state to cleanse the bear, so as to have it fine without using any art or device whatsoever; and for the management of the beer in the cellar. Some observations in the choice of hops; proving that they are useful after they have been used in brewing. The different experiments are from twenty years practice. By E. Hughes. Some very useful and necessary directions to the publican who retails common Brewer's beer. Fourth edition, with an appendix; containing directions for making and drying of malt for beer and porter, from a new and improved method.---Assisted by a Maltster, of 30 years experience, with the necessary improvements on the kiln, for drying porter malt, &c.
Hughes, E., active 1796.Date: 1798- Ephemera
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Memo from Clayton & Jowett, Ltd. : fellows of the Chemical Society, analytical & consulting chemists to the aerated water & brewing trades wholesale & export druggists.
Date: 1901- Books
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The london and country brewer. Containing. I. Of the four quarters of the year as they relate to brewing malt-liquors. II. The State of Barley for the Year 1737. III. Of Malt-Kilns. IV. Of Fuels for drying the several Sorts of Malt. V. Of the great publick Brew-House. VI. Of the small private Brew-House. Vii. An excellent Way of Brewing a Butt of Pale strong Beer, by an Inn-Keeper. Viii. Brewing a Hogshead and a Half of Pale-Ale from fresh Malt, by a private Person. IX. The best Way to make Elderberry-Beer (called Ebulum) China Ale, and several other Sorts. X. Of the Devonshire white Ale. XI. A Scheme for Brewing strong Malt-Liquors after a new improved Method. XII. Of Worts, and their Improvements after a new Method. XIII. The Barnstable Way of Brewing a Hogshead of fine Pale Ale. XIV. Of Working Beer and Ale after a new Way, to their great Advantage. XV. Of Brewing Butt-Beer called Porter. XVI. An Account of the Destructive Weevils, with several Ways to destroy them. XVII. Common purl improv'd, by a famous new cheap receipt now in use, rendring it far more wholesome and pleasant that by the common way. To which i added, the cellar-man, or many receipts to cure, preserve and improve drinks in the cask; wherein the Case of Cloudy-Beer is accounted for, and its effectual Cure amply prescrib'd. A new advantagious Way to get out the Sap of new Casks, and to Season them at once; likewise particular Directions for Bottling Malt-Drinks; with many other useful Matters, never before Publish'd; truly necessary for those who are concern'd in Brewing or Selling Malt-Liquors. By a person formerly concerned in a publick brewhouse, at London, but who for twenty years past has resided in the country. The third and last part.
Ellis, William, brewer.Date: MDCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A guide to gentlemen and farmers, for brewing the finest malt-liquors, much better and cheaper than hitherto known. ... The third edition, with an addition of 25 receipts ... By a country gentleman.
Country Gentleman.Date: 1719- Books
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The London and Country Brewer. Containing the whole art of brewing all sorts of malt-liquors, as practised both in town and country; according to observations made by the author in four years travels through the several counties in England. Also, the method of preserving liquors in the cask, and directions to be observed in bottling them. In three parts. To which is added, a supplement. By a person formerly concerned in a Public Brew-House in London.
Ellis, William, brewer.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The brewer's assistant, containing a variety of tables, calculated to find, with precision, the value, quantity, weight, &c. of the principal articles Purchased, Expended, Sold, or Retained, in a brewing trade.
Goodwyn, Henry.Date: 1796- Books
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A guide to gentlemen and farmers, for brewing the finest malt-liquors, much better and cheaper than hitherto known. Shewing what care is to be taken in the choice of water, malt, and hops. And in what proportions they are to be mixed, boyled and fermented, for making the best March, or October beer, strong ale, &c. Also particular directions for the right managing all brewing utencles. In a method never before publish'd. Useful for all such as are curious in malt-liquors. By a country gentleman. With a satyr upon brandy, by another hand.
Country Gentleman.Date: 1703- Books
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Statical estimates of the materials of brewing; or a treatise on the application and use of the Saccharometer; An Instrument constructed for the purposes Of regulating to advantage the Oeconomy of the Brewhouse; And of establishing the Means of producing Uniform Strength in Malt-Liquors; Including a definite Estimate of the intrinsic Value of different Malts, the Produce of English, Scotch, and Foreign Barley; the specific Gravities of Worts, from which several Kinds of Ale and Porter are made; the Attenuation of the Density of fermentable Fluids, by the Action of Fermentation; the Portion of Spirit generated by that Action, in Beers of different Lengths; the Mode of estimating the Strength or Inebriating Quality of fermented Liquors; with some Propositions for effecting a very considerable Saving in the Consumption of Malt. By J. Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: 1784- Pictures
A witch brewing a mixture using poisonous substances that can be found in a workplace, and an official form with instructions on handling them. Colour lithograph for the Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften, 2001.
Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften.Date: [2001]Reference: 771812i- Books
Cerevisiarii comes, or, The new and true art of brewing, illustrated by various examples in making beer, ale and other liquors, so that they may be most durable, brisk and fragrant; and how they may be so ordered, as to yeild [sic] the greatest quantity of spirits in distillation. To which is added, the right way to refine and bottle beer and cyder, and a cure for those that are sick and ropy, so as to return them to their internal sanity, as also the true method of manuring lands and the art of making salt water fresh. All proved by demonstration and sound philosophy, to be more agreeable to man's body than otherwise, and so not only fit for English constitutions, but also for transportation. Published for the sake of verity, and therefore recommended to all that esteem demonstrated truths before notional theory / by W.Y-worth.
Y-Worth, W. (William)Date: 1692- Books
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Tables, and directions for using the saccharometer, as referred to in a treatise on that subject, entitled Statical estimates of the materials of brewing, &c. &c. By [blank, i.e. John Richardson]. Number [blank].
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : adapted for families in the middling, & genteel ranks of life, with a complete family physician, instructions for making British wines, brewing, baking, &c., &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.
Hammond, Elizabeth.Date: 1816- Books
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The cook and housewife's manual : a practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management; containing a compendium of French cookery ... To which is added, a comprehensive treatise on domestic brewing / by Mistress Margaret Dods.
Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857.Date: 1842- Books
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Cottage economy containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the affairs of a labourers' family / By William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1822