The American Practical Brewer and Tanner

The American Practical Brewer
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Title: The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
Author: Joseph Coppinger
Release Date: February 25, 2007 [EBook #20663]
Language: English
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THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL BREWER AND TANNER:
IN WHICH IS EXHIBITED
THE WHOLE PROCESS OF

Brewing without boiling.
Brewing strong Beer with the extract only of the Hop, leaving out the
substance.
A simple method of giving new Beer all the qualities of age, thereby
fitting it for the bottle before it is three weeks old.
A simple method of preventing Beer bursting the bottle.
An economical mode of constructing Vats above ground, possessing
the temperature of the best cellars and thus rendered fireproof.
An economical mode by which every Housekeeper may brew his own
Beer.
A method of brewing good Beer from Bran and Shorts, and of
preserving it.
The Bordeaux method of making and preparing Claret Wine for
shipping, which may be successfully applied to the wines of this
country, particularly those of Kaskaskias.
The best method and season for malting Indian Corn, from which alone
good Beer can be made, a process highly important to Brewers.
The best mode of raising Hops.
The best mode of preparing Seed Barley for sowing.
Best construction and aspect of Breweries and Malt Houses in this
country.
The French mode of tanning the heaviest Soal Leather in twenty-one
days, and Calf Skins in three or four. (Highly important.)

BY JOSEPH COPPINGER. Practical Brewer.

NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY VAN WINKLE AND WILEY, No. 3
Wall Street.
1815.

Transcriber's Note: Part of the last sentence in Footnote 6 is illegible
and has been marked [remainder of text is illegible]. In addition, the
Contents were moved from the rear to the front of this text for the
convenience of the reader.

CONTENTS.
Page.
Advertisement 3
Preface 5
The best position for placing a brewery and malt house, also the best
aspect, with different arrangements of the vessels 11
A description of the form and plan of a brewery, distribution of the
vessels; the most judicious and convenient manner of placing them,
with a view to economy, cleanliness, and effect 13
Malt house, the best construction of, with proper barley lofts, dropping
room, and flooring, how, and in what manner made, and best likely to
last 18
Wooden kilns, how constructed 23
A new and economical construction of vats for keeping beer, which, in
this way, may be rendered fire proof, whilst at the same time
possessing the temperature of the best cellars, although above ground

29
Grinding, how substituted for 31
Malting 33
Plain practical process of malting 44
Malting winter barley 50
Malting oats ib.
Malting rye ib.
Malting wheat ib.
Indian corn, how malted 51
Fermentation 54
Hops, how cultivated 99
Barley cultivation 109
Table beer 112
Small beer for shipping 113
Keeping table beer 114
Small beer of the best kind 116
Another method to brew small beer 118
Another process for brewing small beer 120
Single ale and table beer 123
Strong beer 126

Table beer, English method of brewing it 129
Unboiled beer 131
Strong beer, brewed with the extract of hops, leaving out the substance
134
Table beer for housekeepers, well worth their attention 136
Fermenting and cleansing in the same vessel 138
Plate of the worker 139
A new method of fermenting strong beer, that will produce a pure and
good liquor 140
Process of brewing Windsor ale, on a small scale 142
Reading beer, how brewed 145
Two-penny amber beer, as brewed in London 147
London ale, how brewed 149
Windsor ale, on a large scale 151
Welsh ale, how brewed 154
Wirtemberg ale 156
Hock 158
Scurvy grass ale 160
Dorchester ale 162
Porter 165
Porter process No. I. 167

Porter process No. II. 170
Porter process No. III. 172
Porter malt 174
Porter colouring 176
Strong beer 182
Filtering operation (with a Plate) 189
Returned beer, how to make the most of 193
To Bring several sorts of beer, when mixed, to one uniform taste 194
Finings, the best method of preparing them 195
Heading 197
Bottling beer 198
Brewing coppers, the best method of setting them 202
Pumps, the best construction of, and how freed from ice in winter 205
Cleansing casks 208
To make mead wine 210
To make ginger wine 212
To make currant wine 213
Yest, how prepared to keep good