202 MEAD. 



tunned, brimftone thrown on a few live 

 coals, and fet under the cafk, will prefently 

 reftrain it, or any other fermenting liquor. 



To promote fermentation., care muft be had 

 that the cafks be not fhook, and that they be 

 kept warm, excluding much air or light ; and 

 with the bung-hole but loofely covered. 



For conducting the fermentation with 

 fuccefs, the rule is to Hop it at the vinous, 

 flate, before it commences to be acidulous : 

 for, if not fermented enough, it will be foul, 

 mawkifh, and not keep j if too much, it will 

 then turn four. 



The practice of vintners is to fcent their 

 calks with the match, viz. for a pipe take four 

 ounces of brimftone, of burned alum one 

 ounce, put in a pipkin, and held over a chaf- 

 fing difh of coals till the brimftone is melted 

 and runs. Slips of canvas or coarfe linen 

 are then dipped into it, and the powders of 

 nutmegs, cloves, and corianders, inftantly 

 fprinkled on them, and then fired, and let 

 down at the bung-hole, and the fumes kept 

 within the vefiel as much as poflible. 



This prevents the ropinefs of liquors, and 

 a diffipation of fpirits, and confequent weak- 



nefs, 



