Of Making Cider. 
the beft addition to preferve it, is the 
new Lees of SpaniJIo Wines. 
After you have thus clofed up your 
Bung, you ought yet to leave open the 
fmall Vent-hole only loofely,putting in the 
Peg, left otherwifethe wilde Spirit of the 
Cider force a paflage, as I have known it 
a week after its tunning to have heav’d up 
the head of the Barrel alraoft to a Rupture; 
which by the eafie flopping this Vent, and 
fometimes opening it, may be prevented 
until you find it hath wafted that wilde 
Spirit. For the Vulgar advice of barrel¬ 
ling up Cider from the Prefs , and then 
flopping itclofe, is pernicious to this Li¬ 
quor, many having fpoil’d it by this means: 
the Spirits feeking for a vent will find it, 
and the more they are pent, the longer will 
they be before they are expended ; which 
vent being negleCted by the Cidcrift, be¬ 
comes a paflage for the beft Spirits of the 
Cider many times, to its abfolute Ipoil- 
ing. 
The vulgar opinion of the fudden de¬ 
caying or flatning of Cider , is to be re¬ 
jected, fcarce any Drink being more eafily 
preferv’dthan this; and though much of its 
Spirits be loft, yet out of its own body, 
whilft new, may they be again reviv’d, it 
fuffering 
