X PREFACE. 



but of which the latter is, in an eminent manner, the ap- 

 propriate theatre. 



With the common rules for making beer, already so 

 often repeated, the author has also, to the best of his ex- 

 perience and information, dilated on the nature and pro- 

 perties of that universal English beverage, to the end, he 

 trusts, that his readers may profit thereby, and escape all 

 frauds and deceptions, those excepted which they may 

 choose voluntarily to impose on themselves. 



May 10, 1824. 



