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THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL


BREWER AND TANNER:

 

IN WHICH IS EXHIBITED

 

THE WHOLE PROCESS OF


  • Brewing without boiling.
  • Brewing strong Beer with the extract only of the Hop, leaving out the substance.
  • A simple method of giving new Beer all the qualities of age, thereby fitting it for the bottle before it is three weeks old.
  • A simple method of preventing Beer bursting the bottle.
  • An economical mode of constructing Vats above ground, possessing the temperature of the best cellars and thus rendered fireproof.
  • An economical mode by which every Housekeeper may brew his own Beer.
  • A method of brewing good Beer from Bran and Shorts, and of preserving it.
  • The Bordeaux method of making and preparing Claret Wine for shipping, which may be successfully applied to the wines of this country, particularly those of Kaskaskias.
  • The best method and season for malting Indian Corn, from which alone good Beer can be made, a process highly important to Brewers.
  • The best mode of raising Hops.
  • The best mode of preparing Seed Barley for sowing.
  • Best construction and aspect of Breweries and Malt Houses in this country.
  • The French mode of tanning the heaviest Soal Leather in twenty-one days, and Calf Skins in three or four. (Highly important.)

By

JOSEPH COPPINGER.
Practical Brewer.

NEW-YORK:
PRINTED BY VAN WINKLE AND WILEY,
No. 3 Wall Street.

1815.

 

 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, ss.

ADVERTISEMENT.

PREFACE.

 

The best position for placing a Brewery and Malt house, also the best aspect, with different arrangements of the Utensils.

 

A description of the form and plan of a Brewery, distribution of the Vessels, the most judicious and convenient manner of placing them, with a view to economy, cleanliness, and effect.

 

 

 

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