Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Principal Dramatis Personae
- Introduction
- 1 The Curious Brewer
- 2 The Theorist and the Thermometer
- 3 Brewery Instructors in Public and Private
- 4 The Value of Beer
- 5 Chemists, Druggists and Beer Doctors
- 6 Professors in the Brewhouse
- 7 Treatises for the Trade
- 8 Analysis and Synthesis
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Conclusion
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Principal Dramatis Personae
- Introduction
- 1 The Curious Brewer
- 2 The Theorist and the Thermometer
- 3 Brewery Instructors in Public and Private
- 4 The Value of Beer
- 5 Chemists, Druggists and Beer Doctors
- 6 Professors in the Brewhouse
- 7 Treatises for the Trade
- 8 Analysis and Synthesis
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
To ‘BUNGS’
of Independency: –
This Volume has a tendency
To place you in ascendancy
Above undue monopolies;
And hence to you, whate'er your station,
Your creed, your colour, or your nation,
Its author makes no hesitation,
To tender this, his
DEDICATION.
W. L. TizardIn 1854, Punch introduced its readers to Mr John Paterfamilias, ‘a man of an inquiring, but by no means robust mind’, addicted to reforming his suburban household along ‘rational and sanitary principles’. Undeterred by disastrous experiments in gas-fitting, and alarmed by adulteration reports in the Lancet, Paterfamilias decides to brew for himself, aided by his son Newton – a priggish 7-year-old, similarly addicted to scientific authority – and a ‘very clear little practical treatise’, priced 2s. The instructions dictate that mashing should begin at the preposterously low temperature of 78°F: having no thermometer, Paterfamilias accepts his servant's approximation of ‘one pail o'bilin' to three o'cold’. Having mixed the water and malt, Paterfamilias runs off the wort immediately, and is greatly surprised by its watery thinness: ‘I don't think all the gluten can have been converted into saccharine’, remarks Newton sagely. They press on regardless to the fermentation stage. Decanted into a household water-cask, the brew exhales a sufficient blanket of carbon dioxide to strike the inquisitive Newton insensible, and in six weeks proves to be perfect vinegar. ‘The fermentation’, puzzles Paterfamilias, ‘must have been acetous instead of vinous’.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880 , pp. 207 - 212Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014