Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. THE BEVERAGES OP LONDON. Iucrease or Decrease of Beer-drinking in London, which ? -- Malt and Malting. -- Quantities of Barley malted.-- Hops and Hop-growing.--Hop-gamhling. -- Gradual Rise of Porter brewing.--Vastness of the London Breweries. -- Manufacturing History of a Pint of Porter. -- Amount of Brewing and Beer-drinking in London. -- Public-houses of London. -- Anomalies in the licensing System. -- Oddities in the Signs of Public-houses.--Spirit drinking-- Remarkable Chemistry of Spirit-distilling. -- Great London Distilleries. -- Distinction between Distillers and Rectifiers. -- English Gin and Scotch or Irish Whiskey.--Probable Consumption Wine--Causes of its small Consumption in England--Operations of the Vintage.-- Probable Quantities produced. -- Names and Capacities of Casks -- Port and Sherry sophisticated for the English Market. --Quantities imported.--Great Vaults at the London Docks.--s Tasting Orders.'-- Adulteration of Wine. -- British Wine. -- Rise of this Manufacture in Connection with Vinegar-making. Popular opinions require occasional revision. That London is a beer-drinking city -- a city in which porter-breweries, dray-horses, draymen, beer-butts, and public-houses are especial characteristics -- is in many quarters a received doctrine, a theorem not to be gainsaid. But is this true? Will the current opinion bear the test of examination? It may be incontrovertible that our great brewers send forth a larger amount of malt-liquor than any other brewers in the world; but this is not conclusive. The inquiry is -- not how much beer is brewed and drunk--but what ratio does Ch. XII. BEER DRINKING. 453 this quantity bear to the number of inhabitants. Now there is strong reason to think that, both in the...
