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the alternative of employing the later portion of the pocket as a 

 copper hop should his brewing storage determine rapid deterioration, 

 rejecting the sample for hopping down so soon as he detects any 

 serious alteration in character. 



When, early in 1896, as the result of several years' experiments, 

 the writer, in conjunction with another, first advocated the use of cold 

 as the only preservative for hops, many doubts were expressed, not 

 merely by brewers but by hop merchants of long experience, as to the 

 practicability or even the efficacy of the system. The day has now 

 long past since cold storage became a recognised system as applied 

 to hops. Its success is established both as regards the quality of the 

 article and commercial practicability, and the erection of large hop 

 cold stores not only in London but in the provinces, and the fact that 

 these cold stores are constantly increasing in number and are fre- 

 quently taxed to their utmost capacity, dispels any shadow of doubt 

 which may have once possessed the minds of brewers and merchants. 

 Largely as cold storage is now adopted, it will be even more employed 

 in the future, and the loss of many thousands of pounds which has 

 for a long time past occurred each year will no longer be tolerated ; 

 but all hops of fair quality which are not immediately required by the 

 brewer will certainly in the near future be retained in cold store until 

 used. 



