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Breweries and Maltings: Their Arrangement, Construction, and Machinery By George Scammel This item is not currently in stock. » Notify me when this item is available... Enter your email address below, and we'll notify you as soon as this item becomes available. [read more] Your email: ... See shipping rates for this item ... Email a friend about this item ... Link to this page

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Publisher: A. Fullerton & Co., London, 1871.
Hard Cover, 134 pages, 6.25 x 10.00.
Item #1398

Here is a great, first-edition (1871) book devoted to all aspects of brewery construction as it was practiced during the late 1800s. Chapters are arranged by major functions/departments of the typical brewery. Includes 20 plates showing plans and sections of various facets of breweries and malthouses (or, "maltings," as they were called in England). Contains a fantastic list of patents related to brewing from 1635 to 1870. Also contains tables of useful measurements for brewery materials, containers and machinery.

CHAPTER LIST:

• Site—General Principle for Arrangement of Buildings
• Wells and Water
• Engines and Boilers
• Machinery
• Malt Jacobs and Screws
• Mash Tuns and Machines
• Pumps
• Hoisting Machinery
• Grist Cases and Hoppers
• Boiling
• Coolers
• Refrigerators
• Fermenting Tuns
• Cleansing Vessels
• Pipes
• Cooperage and Maltings
• Cost of Erecting
• Description of Plates

CONDITION: Good. Fading of boards around edges. Hinges tender but holding strong. Early owner's name in ink on first blank page. Light foxing on a few pages.