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the quantity. If only one sort of beer be to be brewed 

 at a time, all the difference is, that, in order to extract 

 the whole of the goodness of the malt, the mashing 

 ought to be at twice. The two worts are then put to- 

 gether, and then you boil them together with the hops. 



59. A Correspondent at Morpeth says, the whcle of 

 the utensils used by him are a twenty-gallon pot, a 

 mashing-tub, that also answers for a tun-tub, and a 

 shallow tub for a cooler; and that these are plenty for 

 a person who is any thing of a contriver. This is 

 very true ; and these things will cost no more, perhaps, 

 than forty shilling's. A nine gallon cask of beer can 

 be brewed very well with such utensils. Indeed, it is 

 what used to be done by almost every labouring man 

 in the kingdom, until the high price of malt and com- 

 paratively low price of wages rendered the people too 

 poor and miserable to be able to brew at all. A Cor- 

 respondent at Bristol has obligingly sent me the model 

 of utensils for brewing on a small scale; but as they 

 consist chiefly of brittle ware, I am of opinion that 

 they would not so well answer the purpose. 



60. Indeed, as to the country labourers, all they want 

 is the ability to get the malt. Mr. ELLMAN, in his 

 evidence before the Agricultural Committee, said, 

 that, when he began farming, forty-five years ago, 

 there was not a labourer's family in the parish that 

 did not brew their own beer and enjoy it by their own 

 fire-sides ; and that, now, not one single family did it, 



from want of ability to get the malt. It is the tax 

 that prevents their getting the malt ; for, the barley is 

 cheap enough. The tax causes a monopoly in the 

 hands of the maltsters, who, when the tax is two and 

 sixpence, make the malt, cost Is. 6cZ., though the bar- 

 ley cost but 2s. 6.d; and though the malt, tax and all, 

 ought to cost him about 5s. (yd. If the tax were taken 

 off, this pernicious 'monopoly would be destroyed. 



61. The reader will easily see, that, in proportion 

 to the quantity wanted to be brewed must be the size 

 of the utensils ; but, I may observe here, that the above 

 utensils are sufficient for three, or even four, bushels 

 of malt, if stronger beer be wanted. 



