O Α PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BREWING, BASED ON CHEMICAL AND ECONOMICAL PRINCIPLES; WITH FORMULÆ FOR PUBLIC BREWERS, AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR Private Families. BY WILLIAM BLACK, PRACTICAL BREWER, THIRD EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. ΤΟ THOMAS GRAHAM, ESQ., PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE LONDON UNIVERSITY, F. R. S., &c. &c., This Work is Dedicated, AS A TESTIMONY OF HIGH RESPECT FOR HIS PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES, AND ESTEEM FOR HIS PRIVATE WORTH, EY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE SUCCESS of two Editions of the Treatise on Brewing, has encouraged the author to offer to the public a Third Edition, carefully revised and corrected. A considerable quantity of important matter has also been added, which has had the benefit of being revised by Professor Graham, of the London University, whose eminence in the science of chemistry is universally acknowledged. In no instance does the author refer to the opinions of others all the information which he communicates being derived entirely from his own practical experience, in all parts of the United Kingdom. |