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do I conceive it would be an evil if fuch men were 

 a little to raifc the price of (Irong beer, I mean only 

 the finer pale beer of this country, and give the 

 confumer an equivalent in age, ftrength, and (ludied 

 excellence of flavour; which might tend to check 

 the now immoderate ufeof a foreign, and frequently 

 fpurious noxious article, under the name of red-port. 

 The confumption of this article of late years, and 

 perhaps we may alfo fay the more unwholefome 

 article of French brandy, is a national difadvantage,-' 

 as well as a moral one. For they are articles which 

 are againft a favourable balance of trade, and in- 

 duce luxury and difeafe. 



But though, as was hinted before, the profit o( 

 merely fmall-beer breweries, efpecially on that con- 

 tra<5led fcale which lome fituations will require, may 

 not be inviting, yet it fhould be remembered that 

 as things are great or fmall by comparifon, a profit 

 which to large brewers would be unworthy of no- 

 tice, might be ufeful and fufficient to another man 

 of fmall property, fmall views, and in the habits of 

 manual labour. And it is prefumable that by a 

 little encouragement many would be found ready 

 to embark on fuch a fcale of brewery, merely for a 

 fcanty livelihood, or to employ a part of their time; 

 the experiment is eafy, and may be worth the trial. 



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