SOURED BEER FERMENTATION. 



Instead of believing in the following Receipt, let 

 the reader reverse the old saying, and go about to 

 prove it. To keep drink from being PRICKED IN 

 THE CASK Put an iron pad over the bung-hole; 

 over that pad, work a piece of clay, big enough to 

 cover all, and exclude the air. This will preserve 

 the beer sound, during thunder, or under exposure 

 in the vault or cellar, to concussion from carriages 

 above ; and more particularly where, from want of 

 n better convenience, beer is placed above ground. 



To check FERMENTATION in the Cask. We have 

 at this moment a small latter brewing, and the beer 

 has continued to work during several weeks, in the 

 cask. Instances have occurred, of beer, though 

 brewed in the season, fermenting throughout the 

 summer. The old brewers recommend, in the case, 

 to draw off a quantity, from a quart to a gallon, and 

 replace it with raw wort. I have tried cold beer 

 without effect. They also direct to burn brimstone 

 beneath, or about the cask ; or, which perhaps is 

 the best remedy, rack the beer into a fresh cask, 

 previously well steamed with sulphur, burning rags, 

 or other convenient mode. 



