temperature necessary for keeping beer will be
as securely preserved above, as under ground, and the erections so
constructed, as not only to be air, but fire proof. (See description of
these vats.)

_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._

The best plan of a well-constructed brewery I conceive to be that of a
hollow, or oblong square, where all is enclosed by one or two gateways,
(the latter the most complete,) parallel to each other. The first
gateway, forming the brewery entrance, to pass through the dwelling
house; the second, or corresponding gateway, to pass through the
opposite side of the square, into an outer yard, well enclosed with
walls and sheds, containing cooper's shop, &c. where all the empty
casks might be securely preserved from the injury of wind and weather.
This yard should be further sufficiently large to afford room for a hay
reek, firewood, dung, &c. The brewery office should be placed in the
passage of the outer gateway, so that every thing going in and out
might be seen by those who are in the office. The dwelling house, vat
house, and working store, to form one side of the brewery. The malt
house, another. The kiln house, dropping room, and stable, a third
side. The brewery, mill house, and hop room, to form the fourth side;
thus completed, it would form a square, and afford security to whatever
was contained within it, when the gates are locked. The sky cooler is,
generally, the most elevated vessel in the brewery, and when properly
constructed, is of great importance in facilitating both brewing and
malting operations, as it usually supplies the whole quantity of water
wanted in both. It commands the copper, and, of course, all the other
vessels of the brewery: it may be so constructed as to form a complete
roof to the mill loft, and in that situation be most conveniently
placed for being filled from the water cistern, which should be placed
contiguous to the mill walk, and so raised to the sky cooler by one or
more pumps worked by the mill, with a one, two, or three horse power,
according to the length of the lever, and the diameter of the mill.
Sky, or water coolers, in general, are square vessels, made of the best
two inch pine plank, properly jointed, from twenty to twenty-five feet
square, laid on strong joists sufficiently close, a