a pail, and with the help of
a wooden funnel fill the cask quite full. The beer will now begin to
ferment again, and must be allowed to discharge itself from the
bung-hole. When the working has ceased, the cask is again filled up with
the surplus beer; and a handful of fresh hops being added, the bung is
finally closed down. If the whole process has been properly attended to,
such a cask of beer will be clear in a week; and as soon as clear it may
be tapped. Small beer may be tapped in less time. On a larger scale, or
with casks of a smaller size, two sorts may be made, ale and small beer,
taking the first wort for the former, and the second for the
latter.--The advantages attending the Patent Machine are very obvious;
for though the process appears to be minute, it is easily conducted, and
but little time is required for the purpose. In the common method of
brewing, the water must be carried from the copper to the mash-tub,
while the machine serves for both purposes at once. With the common
utensils the process is necessarily much slower, and the fuel consumed
is nearly ten times as much; but the great convenience of all is the
little room required and the place of brewing. In the common way there
is wanted a copper fixed in brick-work, and for a family of any
considerable size a brewhouse is indispensable. On the contrary, the
machine is set up opposite any fire place, and the pipe enters the
chimney, or is put into the fire place. There is no boiling over, no
slopping about; and the operation may be performed upon a boarded floor,
as well as upon a brick or stone floor. If there be no fire place in the
room, the pipe can be projected through an opening in the window, or
through the outside of any sort of building, not liable to suffer from
the heat of the pipe. Even a garden walk, a court, or open field will
answer the purpose, provided there be no rain, and the mash-tub be kept
sufficiently warm. When the brewing is finished, the machine should be
well scalded, rubbed dry, and kept in a dry place. The two coolers, G G,
placed on different casks, have no necessary connection with the
machine. They are made of wood or cast-iron, of a size to fit one within
another to save room. The Patent Machine is sold by Messrs. Needham and
Co. 202, Piccadilly, London. The price of one for brewing a bushel of
malt is L8, for two bushels L13, for three L18, for four L24, for five
L30, and for six L33. If the article be thought expens