Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880How 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
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Curious Brewer | 11 |
2 The Theorist and the Thermometer | 33 |
3 Brewery Instructors in Public and Private | 59 |
4 The Value of Beer | 83 |
5 Chemists Druggists and Beer Doctors | 107 |
6 Professors in the Brewhouse | 135 |
7 Treatises for the Trade | 157 |
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