200 MEAD. 



If another fermentation fhould be per- 

 ceived, leave the vent peg out for fome 

 days. Having flood fix months, if it is , 

 fine, bottle it ; if not, draw it off the lees, 

 drain them out, without rinfing the cafk, 

 and return the liquor into it. Then 

 take a long two ounce phial (fuch as 

 Bateman's drops or Godfrey's cordial are 

 ufually put in), put therein a quarter part of 

 chalk in fmall bits, and to it a quarter of 

 water : then tying round the neck a piece 

 of thread or twine, let it down into the cafk, 

 till its top is on a level with the bung-hole ; 

 when pour in about a quarter part of the 

 meafure of the phial of weak fpirit of vi- 

 triol, and inftantly let it down far enough 

 for the bung to go in ; but not fo low as 

 for any of the liquor to pafs into the phial. 

 Hold the ftring till the bung is faft in, to fe- 

 cure the phial from flipping down. 



Care mud be taken, when the hung is to 

 be taken out, to fecure the ftring that the 

 phial may not. fink into the liquor. The 

 quantity ftated is enough for nine gallons. 



The fixed air generated from the phial 

 will gradually pafs into the liquor, and not 



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