Both malting and brewing are chemical operations, and to attain to proficiency in the art, an extensive knowledge .Of theoretical chemistry, and a slight portion of practical, is necessary. Well grounded in such science, the practitioner becomes acquainted with the laws of Nature, studies her admirable process in germination, vegetation, and fermentation, and takes her as his pattern and guide, and endeavors to imitate her closely as he possibly can, in the several assimilating operations he is required to perform. He knows her seasons, and adopts them as his own, as well as circumstances admit ; and when compelled to take an inauspicious period for the accomplishment of any operation, he views the dangers, ascertains the difficulties, and by the aid of art accommodate& his practice to the occasion, endeavoring thereby to realize the results that he might calculate upon in a more propitious season.
Although the author is fully aware what are the requisite attainments, yet he is perfectly conscious that he does not possess them to a desirable extent, or sufficient to render him a competent instructor of others; yet such as he is, he presume to offer to those who have made less "Progress than himself in the path of improvement, such information DR he has gleaned, which he frankly tells them, they will find fall abort of their need, if not of their expectation
Although the author is fully aware what are the requisite attainments, yet he is perfectly conscious that he does not possess them to a desirable extent, or sufficient to render him a competent instructor of others; yet such as he is, he presume to offer to those who have made less "Progress than himself in the path of improvement, such information DR he has gleaned, which he frankly tells them, they will find fall abort of their need, if not of their expectation
