How to Brew and Store Your Own Beer (Lost Master Keys of the Homebrewery Book 1)

All tastes, generally speaking, are acquired ; and from use, we have heard of even rancid butter being preferred to sweet. We also read that the Chinese prefer rotten eggs to fresh, as having a higher and to them more agreeable flavour. Taste, therefore, can be no criterion by which to judge of the wholesomeness or quality of beer, but as malt liquor may now be considered one of the necessaries of life among the working classes, it is of the greatest importance that they be supplied with such an article, as may not prove injurious to their health. An honest brewer, therefore, should not rest altogether satisfied with being able to please the palates of his customers, but should endeavor to produce what he knows to be a really wholesome and nourishing, as well as an agreeable drink. I have endeavored as much as possible to avoid all extraneous matter, confining myself principally to my own practice, and although the treatise may appear short, I trust that useful information will be found in almost every page.