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Publisher: Brewing Trade Review, London, 1906.
Hard Cover, 223 pages, 5.50 x 8.00.
Item #1503
In the early 1900s, brewer Arthur Hartley penned a number of articles on beer bottling for London's well-regarded Brewing Trade Review. Their importance and value to brewers lead Hartley to expand the articles and publish them in book format in 1906. In his book, he laments that bottling among English brewers of the era largely did not take advantage of recent advances in bottling technology: "It is but a few years ago that the majority of brewers around the country were entirely averse from any new departure of the kind [i.e. bottling], the general contention being that it entailed an immense amout of extra trouble, which would in no way be repaid by increase of profit. Consequently, many brewers owning tied houses allowed a valuable portion of their trade to fall into more enterprising hands. For many years, those brewers who bottled at all were content to confine themselves to beers that had acquired decided maturity in cask, and no attempt was made to bottle any ale that had not become spontaneously brilliant. The system of artificial fining prior to bottling found only gradual favour concurrently with the lessening demand for stock beers in general. Even now there are some brewers who rely upon spontaneous clarification for the perfection of their bottled ales, and there can be no doubt whatever, so far as bottle quality is concerned, that they are amply repaid for the extra time involved. But in these days, time is the very thing that brewers object to give...Loss of time is loss of money also." Thus, says the author, it had come time for English brewers to implement new methods and technologies in their bottling operations. His book was a step-by-step guide to do just that. CHAPTER LIST: Introduction
Arrangement and Construction
Production of Beer for Bottling
Bottles
Corks and Stoppers
Bottle Washing
Filling from the Cask and Maturing Under Natural Conditions
Carbonic Acid Gas and Questions in Connection With It
Carbonated Beers
Chilling and Precipitation
Filtration and Counter-Pressure Filling
Pasteurisation
General Observations
Index
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