Chadwick's Practical Teatise on Brewing, With the Mode of Using the Thermometer and Saccharometer, Chiefly Designed for Private Families By William Chadwick 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: Whittaker & Co., London, 1835.
Soft Cover, 67 pages, 4.5 x 7.5.
Item #1507

Here is a rare little manual to household beermaking, published in 1835 by William Chadwick, who proudly described his vocation as "Butler to Wm. Blake, Esq." Chadwick asserts that the thermometer and saccharometer ought not be the tools of professional brewers only, but that households would benefit from their use as well. He writes,

"There can be no doubt that good beer has often been brewed without a thermometer and saccharometer, but it is equally certain, that there is scarcely a family which has not been frequently obliged to submit to the disappointment and inconvenience arising from constant failures; and it is to avoid the risk of these failures, and to introduce certainty into the operations, rather than to rely upon guess, that the author has drawn up the following rules."

The author breaks his guide into the following sections:• Utensils
• Water
• Malt
• Hops
• Mashing
• Boiling
• Cooling
• Fermentation
• Cleansing