The Theory and Practice of Brewing - circa 1804

Deofol · 12-03-2007, 07:15 PM

This is one of the earliest (if not the first?) books published on brewing ale/beer.

I found an online scan, and thought some of you might find it interesting. Since I've been homebrewing, I've really started to find the history of ale/beer very facinating.

http://www.archive.org/details/theoryandpractic00combiala

Bill

**Orfy** · 12-03-2007, 07:18 PM

Thanks.

I think I'll save that for later.

Danek · 12-04-2007, 11:18 AM

If you're interested in historical brewing, you might want to check out the following, available via Project Gutenberg (at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16441 )

**Baldy_Beer_Brewery** · 12-04-2007, 12:27 PM

Thanks for sharing the link. But I didn't readily find the chapter on sanitizing.

It would be interesting to see what people think of the brewing books we read in 200 years.

Chad · 12-04-2007, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deofol

This is one of the earliest (if not the first?) books published on brewing ale/beer.

I found an online scan, and thought some of you might find it interesting. Since I've been homebrewing, I've really started to find the history of ale/beer very facinating.

http://www.archive.org/details/theoryandpractic00combiala

Bill

Thanks for the great link.

I hope everyone else has noticed that there is a clickable keyword entry ("brewing") that takes you to a page listing other valuable historic brewing references along with some scientific papers and other random detritus. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

Chad