l, which includes half your second wort, and the whole of
your third; these should be boiled for four hours as hard as you can
make them; pitch your first wort at seventy, or so high that, when in
the tun, it will make up at sixty-four, to which give six gallons of
smooth yest; pitch your second wort at sixty-five, giving seven gallons
more of yest; when all your worts are in your tun, it should make up at
sixty-four. Thus managed, it will be fit to cleanse in thirty-six or
forty hours; the closing and falling in of the head will direct the
period of performing this operation; fill, &c., as in the foregoing
process.
_Porter Process._
No. III.
88 Bushels of Pale Malt.
102 lb. of Hops.
12 Gallons of Essentia Bina, or sugar colouring.
Cleansed twenty-seven and a half Barrels of Porter.
First mashing liquor one hundred and sixty, mash one hour, stand one
hour; second mashing liquor one hundred and seventy, mash one hour,
stand one hour and three quarters; third mashing liquor one hundred and
seventy-five, mash half an hour, stand one hour; divide these three
runs into two equal parts, boil the first one hour, the second two
hours and a half, as hard as you can in both instances; pitch your
first wort at sixty, giving two gallons of solid yest; your second at
sixty-five, giving the same complement of yest; let your fermenting
heat rise to eighty, then cleanse, first topping your tun with two
pounds of bean meal flour, and half a pound of bay salt pounded and
mixed with the flour; fill fine, and head your porter casks, as already
directed to do with hogsheads; let your finings and heading be in that
proportion with lesser casks.
_Porter Malt._
This species of malt should be made from strong, well-bodied barley,
the process exactly the same as for pale malt, until it is about half
dried on the kiln; you then change your fuel under the kiln from coak
or coal to ash or beech wood, which should be split into small handy
billets, and a fierce, strong fire kept up, so as to complete the
drying and colouring in three hours, during which time it should be
frequently turned; when the colour is found sufficiently high, it may
be thrown off; the workmen should be provided with wooden shoes, to
protect their feet from the uncommon heat of the kiln in this last part
of the process, which requires the grain to snap again from the
excessive heat of the kiln. For the better performing this p
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