Small beer is best calculated for common use, being less heating and stimulating than other malt liquors. Drank soft and mild, after being well fermented and fined, it forms an excellent diluent with food, more especially at dinner; The father of English physic, Sydenham, used it in this manner both at dinner and supper; and he justly considered its being well hopped as possessing an important advantage. It is unquestionably the best fermented liquor that can be used at meals, by persons of middle and higher ranks, who are in the habit of drinking wine after dinner; and as it abounds with fixed air, it is the most useful beverage for labourers, as it cools the body, quenches thirst, and at the same time moderately stimulates the animal powers ; but when stale, it is decidedly unwholesome.
Sound strong beer is very nutritious; and is even considered as more nourishing than wine. It is an useful beverage to people of a debilitated constitution, especially to such as labour hard, provided they be not troubled with complaint of the chest. Taken in moderate quantity; and of the best quality, it will often be of service to convalescents, in assisting to restore their constitutional powers. Drank from the cask, it is less liable to produce flatulency than from the bottle.
" Whether from barley or other grain," says Dr. Stevenson, in his little work on alimentary drinks, " provided they be not too strong, malt liquors are wholesome, refreshing,' and strengthening drinks. All these liquors are very nutritious; they are chiefly limited to person who lead a busy and active life. With sedentary and bilious persons, they do not agree so well; and they are improper for the corpulent and asthmatic, and those who are liable to giddiness and other complaints of the head. They are better when of middling age, than when kept very long."
Sound strong beer is very nutritious; and is even considered as more nourishing than wine. It is an useful beverage to people of a debilitated constitution, especially to such as labour hard, provided they be not troubled with complaint of the chest. Taken in moderate quantity; and of the best quality, it will often be of service to convalescents, in assisting to restore their constitutional powers. Drank from the cask, it is less liable to produce flatulency than from the bottle.
" Whether from barley or other grain," says Dr. Stevenson, in his little work on alimentary drinks, " provided they be not too strong, malt liquors are wholesome, refreshing,' and strengthening drinks. All these liquors are very nutritious; they are chiefly limited to person who lead a busy and active life. With sedentary and bilious persons, they do not agree so well; and they are improper for the corpulent and asthmatic, and those who are liable to giddiness and other complaints of the head. They are better when of middling age, than when kept very long."
