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Publisher: Hutchinsons Technical and Scientific Publications, 1947.
Hard Cover, 180 pages, 5.75 x 8.50.
Item #1612
From the dust jacket:
This book is more the history of the men who made beer, the people who sell it and the people who drink it; it is the story of four great struggles which have been fought by the brewers during various periods.
The first was against the petty regulations of Richard Whittington; the second, their fight against the gin-traffic in the eighteenth century; the third, their conflicts with the temperance reformers who attempted to introduce measures which might have ended with prohibition in this country, and, lastly, during the Hitler war years, the struggle to fulfill increased demands when labour problems and the limitations of supplies made this almost impossible.
Throughout the book extracts are quoted from contemporary publications revealing not only the tricks of the traders but also changing customs. The author shows how the Brewers' Company of London and other Brewers' guilds developed, the development of commercial brewing as home-brewing declined, the story of the Irish brewing trade, the introduction of the Tied-House System, the Carlisle Experiment, and the future plans of the trade for brightening public-houses.
The changing methods of brewing are shown in chronological order: the procedure of the monks during the fourteenth century, home-brewing during the eighteenth century and a description of a London brewery one hundred years ago.
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