Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880

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Routledge, Oct 6, 2015 - Science - 320 pages
How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements
The Curious Brewer
The Theorist and the Thermometer
Brewery Instructors in Public and Private
The Value of Beer
Chemists Druggists and Beer Doctors
Professors in the Brewhouse
Treatises for the Trade
Analysis and Synthesis
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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