The Curiosities of Ale and Beer - An Entertaining HistoryRead Books Ltd, 25/08/2017 - 468 páginas This vintage book contains a fascinating and light-hearted treatise on beer and ale, with historical information, details of notable events, descriptions of varieties, and much more. Easy to digest and highly entertaining, this book is recommended for anyone with an interest in the history and development of brewing, and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: "Suppression of Beer-shops in Egypt 2,00 B.C.", "Brewing in a Teapot", "Ale Songs", "Distinctions between Ale and Beer", "Ale Knights' Objection to Sack", "Hogarth and Temperature", "Importance of Ale to the Agricultural Labourer", "Sir John Barleycorne introduced to the Reader", "Origin and Antiquity of Ale and Beer", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction brewing beer. |
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... Burton and Country Brewing Firms.— Edinburgh Ales CHAPTER XIII. Porter and Stout.—Circumstances which led to their Introduction.—Value to the Working Classes.—Anecdotes.—“A Pot of Porter Oh!” CHAPTER XIV. Beverages compounded of Ale or ...
... Burton and Country Brewing Firms.— Edinburgh Ales CHAPTER XIII. Porter and Stout.—Circumstances which led to their Introduction.—Value to the Working Classes.—Anecdotes.—“A Pot of Porter Oh!” CHAPTER XIV. Beverages compounded of Ale or ...
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... Burton ale, double stout or, better still, a mixture of the three with a little aqua vitæ added. In these pages it will be our task, aided or unaided by strong ale as the case may be, to remove the reproach under which this country ...
... Burton ale, double stout or, better still, a mixture of the three with a little aqua vitæ added. In these pages it will be our task, aided or unaided by strong ale as the case may be, to remove the reproach under which this country ...
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... Burton-on-Trent; that holy Hugh Latimer drank a goblet of spiced ale with his supper the night before he was burned alive; that Sir Walter Raleigh took a cool tankard with his pipe, the last pipe of tobacco, on the very morning of his ...
... Burton-on-Trent; that holy Hugh Latimer drank a goblet of spiced ale with his supper the night before he was burned alive; that Sir Walter Raleigh took a cool tankard with his pipe, the last pipe of tobacco, on the very morning of his ...
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... Burton bitter, or of world-famed London stout, that life has still its compensations. “To make barley-water was an invention which found out itself with little more than the joyning the ingredients together,” said old Fuller, in his ...
... Burton bitter, or of world-famed London stout, that life has still its compensations. “To make barley-water was an invention which found out itself with little more than the joyning the ingredients together,” said old Fuller, in his ...
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... Burton ale may even at that time have commanded a higher price than ordinary ale, and the cost of transit would, no doubt, be heavy. In addition to the ale bought at “dyerse pryces,” some must have been brewed at home; for in further ...
... Burton ale may even at that time have commanded a higher price than ordinary ale, and the cost of transit would, no doubt, be heavy. In addition to the ale bought at “dyerse pryces,” some must have been brewed at home; for in further ...
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The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History John Bickerdyke Visualização de excertos - 1971 |
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