HEADING LENGTH MALT. 385 



The above charge, our guide warrants, will pro- 

 duce six gallons of good porter, for which the pub- 

 lican now charges ten shillings, himself paying to the 

 brewer forty-five shillings per barrel of thirty-six 

 gallons. It must be observed, in giving the common 

 brewer's receipt, he quotes additionally, salt of 

 tartar, heading, ginger, slacked lime, coculus Indi- 

 cus, linseed, cinnamon (meaning, doubtless, cassia). 

 We trust no brewer of repute now uses the coculus 

 Indicus. The essentia consists of moist sugar, 

 eight pounds to one quarter of malt, boiled in an 

 iron pot to a thick syrup. COLOURING is also 

 made of eight pounds of moist sugar, boiled to a 

 medium between sweet and bitter. These ingre- 

 dients, the ginger excepted, which is put into the 

 beer after it has worked, are boiled in the first wort, 

 forming the basis of the peculiar porter quality and 

 flavour. The HEADING is a mixture of equal parts, 

 alum and copperas, ground to a fine powder, which 

 gives to the porter its peculiarly fine frothy head. 



I have already observed on the innoxious qualities 

 of the ingredients used in the private brewing of 

 porter ; these are easily to be obtained of the grocer 

 and druggist of any country town, and the manufac- 

 turing labourer, accustomed to the flavour and qua- 

 lities of porter, if economically inclined, may supply 

 himself and family, his rib pulling with him, and 

 standing the fag. The drink will be fit for use after 

 seven days, but will have improved after twenty-one. 

 Mr. Child says, the brewers in his day drew the 

 length of FIVE barrels of porter from a quarter of 

 malt, which great length he seems to have exceeded 



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