Occupations > British wine-maker, and domestic brewer

BREWING.
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mean gravity 72;* it now remains with the ope¬
rator to endeavour to extract the remaining good,
namely, six pounds of saccharum for his table-
beer wort. This may be accomplished, if judi¬
ciously managed, by sparging over the mash eight
gallons of water, at four sparges, each sparge con¬
sisting of two gallons, drawing off eight gallons;
and if the whole of the saccharum could be ex¬
tracted, the gravity would be 27; but as this is
scarcely possible, we will suppose only four lbs.
of saccharum to be extracted, leaving still two
lbs. with the grains.! The gravity of this table-
beer wort will be 18.
I may just here notice the prejudice which ex¬
ists that good ale cannot be brewed from a small
quantity of malt. The idea is erroneous, and has
been proved so both by my own experience, and
by that of others, providing the quantity is not
too small, so as to prevent the proper temperature
* 5 gal. ale wort. 4 gal. table-beer wort.
86 gravity. 54 gravity.
Gal •'
5 430 216
4 216
9) 646
71!, mean gravity.
f One busbel of malt, equal in value to
Extracted 9 gals, ale wort, containing 2 lbs
8 do. table beer, do. £ lb.
Still with the grains,
- lbS’S24r'
. per gal. = 18
do. — 4