THE
THEORY AND PRACTICE
OF
BREWING.
BY MICHAEL COMBRUNE, Brewer.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION OF THE MASTER, WARDENS,
AND COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE WORSHIPFUL
COMPANY OF BREWERS.
A NEW EDITION.
CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR VERNOR AND HOOD, LONGMAN AND REES, CUTRELL
AND MARTIN, AND J. WALKER,
By J. Wright, St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell.
1804.
TO
DOCTOR PETER SHAW,
PHYSICIAN TO HIS MAJESTY,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON,
AND OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Sir,
The brewing of malt liquors has hitherto been conducted by such vague traditional maxims, that an attempt to establish its practice on truer and more fixed principles must, like every new essay, be attended with difficulties.