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which, from long experience, I can instantly detect 

 the flavour in beer ; the latter are heating and un- 

 wholesome. I remember in former days an ale- 

 brewer, who, in his first essay with the Indian berry, 

 was so liberal in the quantity used, that he did not 

 dare to send it among his customers, but found one 

 in a porter brewer, who purchased, at a low price, 

 the guile, to start among his beer. Of late years, 

 the conscientious wine dealers have used a new and 

 dangerous drug in their white wines. 



Good ale or beer, however, is too heavy to dilute 

 full flesh meals, and perhaps inferior, in that respect, 

 to porter, to which again good small beer or water 

 is a superior and better diluent ; strong ale being in 

 its proper place, consorts afterwards, with the des- 

 sert, or accompanies a light supper, or the noon 

 luncheon, after fatigue. It is moreover due, from 

 an impartial writer, to note that much of the vulgar 

 ribaldry against the porter brewers particularly may 

 well, and ought to be spared. So far as I know of 

 the porter to be had at present, in the Metropolis, 

 it is a brisk, full-bodied, and pleasant beer, which 

 will bottle well, referring particularly to that of 

 Messrs. Barclay and Co., Whitbread, and Reid. 

 With the profits of these great and opulent traders 

 I have nought to do, but to remark my little 

 doubt that the patriotic grumblers thereat would 

 not, in their own case, be too modest to accept them 

 from a bountiful public. 



Having acknowledged my unacquainted ness with 

 the peculiar method of brewing PORTER, I cannot, I 



