The Theory and Practice of BrewingCombrune, Michael
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The Theory and Practice of Brewing
Combrune, Michael
Brewing
---- shewing proper dryness of malt, 162
---- shewing the quantity of fermentable principles residing in malt, 168
---- to determine heat of first and last extract, 170
---- ditto for porter, 175
---- shewing color of grain, 184
---- shewing medium heat of each process, 185
---- shewing heat of first and last extracts in common small beer, 191
---- shewing value of hops in degrees, 208
---- shewing the quantity of hops to a quarter of malt in porter, 209
---- ditto common small beer, 210
---- ---- amber, 211
---- ---- Burton ale, 212
---- shewing the medium price hops should bear, 215
---- of lengths, 219
---- of gauges of coppers, 221
---- of time of boiling each beer, 228
---- of volume of malt to reduce grist to liquid measure, 254
---- shewing great evaporation of water in brewing, 256
---- shewing volume of malt equal to one barrel of water, 267
---- of effervescence of malt, 292
---- shewing the _times_ worts should be let down, 308
---- shewing _heat_ at which they should be let down, 309
---- shewing depth of head in cleansing small beer, 321
---- determining taste of malt liquors, 345
Taste, reason of the difference in malt liquors, 342
Technical terms explained, 1-12
Thermometer, when first known in England, 39
---- its improvements, 40-43
---- assists to discover the heat of bodies when blended, 45
---- discovers the strength of a wort, 47
---- ---- quality of hops, 48
---- absurdity of brewers to reject it, 49
Times proper for brewing, 146
Two brewings, circumstances relating to them brought into one point of view, 297-303
V.
Vegetables, why fit for wines, 74-76
Vinegar of beer equal to that of wine, 355
---- best made from strongest liquors, 355
W.
Waste water in brewing each beer, 230-233
Water, its expansion by boiling, 14
---- becomes of equal heat with the air, 21
---- at what degree it changes to ice, 21
---- boiled, its appearance when froze, 21
---- which makes the strongest extracts, 22
---- being light, a good property, 24
---- great quantities evaporated in brewing, 25
---- its ultimate parts less than those of air, 25
---- necessary to fermentation, 27
---- excellency of drinks too often attributed to, 29
---- how examined, 30
---- its division into worts and mashes, 234-252
Water, boiling--the proper state and time for cooling in, 290
Wines, general definition, 50
---- Tockay and Canary, 52
---- Madeira, 63
---- the most certain signs of their wholesomeness, 86
---- their basis, 160
Worts, sometimes over-hopped, 27
---- height in coppers cast up to fix the length, 223
---- cooling-management, 304
Y.
Yeast, replaces the air lost by boiling worts, 22
---- heat at which it acts, 305
---- nature and contents, 311
---- quantity for small beer, 315
---- ---- strong beer and porter, 316
---- ---- ales and amber, 317
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