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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63802	A new art of brewing beer, ale, and other sorts of liquors so as to render them more healthfull to the body and agreeable to nature, and to keep them longer from souring, with less trouble and charge then generally practised, which will be a means to prevent those torturing distempers of the stone, gravel, gout, and dropsie : together with easie experiments for making excellent drinks with apples, currans, goodberries, cherries, herbs, seeds, and hay &c., and the way to preserve eggs five or six months from being musty or rotten : wih an appendix how to make fruit trees constantly fruitful : also a way how every one may purge themselves with common salad herbs and roots, and a method how to prevent constiveness in the body / by the author of The way to long life, health, and happiness &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing T3187; ESTC R26334	40,831	148

are more plentifully sent forth then in other as after an hot Summer in August September and October the Elements then being moist and full of Humidity occasioned by the Declination of the Sun the Days warm the Nights cold which do condense those warm Vapors that the Earth and Waters breathes and sends forth Now these Streams or Breathes which are nothing else but the natural Motions of innate Life and Operations of Nature are better or worse good or bad healthy or unhealthy according to the Nature and quality of the Waters and situation of the Ground which they proceed from Now these Steems or Vapors that arises and proceeds from clear Fountains and Springs or from running Rivers especially such as have Flux and Reflux as the River of Thames and many others have are fine moist thin and penetrating and are powerful openers of Obstructions and great Preservers of Nature and begets Appetite and are good against Astmatical Distempers of the Breast especially if the quality and quantity of Meats and Drinks be carefully observed but the contrary is to be understood of those Steems and Vapors that arises and proceeds from low boggy Grounds Pools standing Waters and the like which do agree but with few Constitutions except such as are born and bred in such places and tho' good Airs are great Preservers of Health yet Temperance and Order hath the first place and ought to be regarded above all other Circumstances and if that be wanting other things and observations signifies little It is also to be noted That all Waters do more plentifully breathe forth Steems and Vapors than the Earth as being more penetrable thin and transparent and therefore more capable of receiving the Light and sweet Influences of the Celestial than the Earth which is a close firm compacted dark Body in comparison of the Element of Water therefore the Vapors proceeding from the Earth are heavier duller and fewer in quantity but not so thin nor penetrating in quality as these from the Water for this Cause those Persons whose Imployments are in and about Waters have for the most part greater Appetites than others and are more lively brisk and strong Therefore it is very good for all People that are afflicted with shortness of Breath Stoppages at the Stomach or over-fatness to imploy themselves on Waters or use themselves to walk by Rivers sides as much as they can in all Seasons of the Year but more especially in Spring and Summer for those fine thin cool penetrating Vapors are as it were suckt in on all sides of the Body which do render those whose Imployments are abroad brisk lively and healthful more especially in moderate Seasons and when the Air and Elements are a little inclinable to Humidity which do mightily rarifie the Air and make it more penetrating and all Men and Beasts are not so subject to heat and drought and other Indispositions as in hot dry Seasons for heat and drought do not only as it were close up the Poors of the Earth but it thickens and stagnates the Air consuming the fine thin moist penetrating Vapors and Spirits making them thick hot and sulpherous and hinders the natural Motions and Circulations of the Elements and their Salniteral Virtues Now this Motion Circulation and continual Sympathatical Mixtion of the Elements is further manifested by the Sea which is the Center of the Element of Water the Moon being the Governess thereof she having a certain secret Influence according to her Increase Decrease and Configurations she hath with the Celestial Bodies for if there were not a continual Motion in this great Fountain Tides Flux and Reflux there could be no Creature generated or should there be a Cessation from Motion but a few hours the whole would immediately become a stinking Lake and all her Inhabitants would be destroyed for that which we call Tides is nothing else but the natural Motion and Circulation that proceeds from the Center or Heart and Animals can as well subsist and continue there being without Motion and Circulation of the Blood and breathing as the great Fountains of Waters or other Elements can live or give being to their Children without Motion and continual Circulation which arises and proceeds from an innate power of the Elements for these Elements are the great Body and wonderful Powers of God and by his centeral Word and innate Virtue all things both in the Animal Vegitable and Mineral Kingdoms have been and are made generated and preserved for the whole Globe of Earth Water Fire and Air are the living Powers of God in which his holy Word do continually create and bring to manifestation the hidden Mysteries and Wonders both of Time and Eternity to his eternal Praise and Glory and his Work goes alway on in exact Number Weight and Measure for in God nor in his Handmaid Nature there is no such thing as standing still or idleness for should the Primum Mobile cease from its natural Motion and Circulation but a few Minutes the whole Mundam Sistime would be ready to sink into Confusion for standing still or idleness have no sympathy either with God or Nature for the Heavens Stars and Elements with the wonderful and amazing Varieties of Beasts Fishes Vegitation and Minerals wherewith the lower Worlds are indued and furnished are the living Powers and Works of the Lord and are still continued by his Alwise Providence and Divine Word which is never idle for Idleness as is said before is allowed no being either in the Internal or External Worlds all in the Beginning was brought into a Being through Labour and Motion as the Learned Moses saith The Lord moved himself on the face of the Waters and they are still sustained to this day by the same active and working Power of the Creator Consider the daily Motions and Circulations of the Celestials viz. Sun Moon and wonderful Company of Stars their Rising Setting continual Motion Courses and various Configurations and all in exact Order Behold the Fountains Springs and Rivers labouring continually in a long progress to pay their tributary Streams to the Ocean and the Ocean by industrious Tides Flux and Refluxes striving as it were to supply the Land from its innate or central Power Do not the great Eye of the World by a sympathatical Power and universal Motion of all Elements exhale Moysture from the Fountains of Waters and bottle it up in the Clouds or Powers of God till an appointed time and then Return it with plenteous Usury to water and make fat the Earth with the Dew of Heaven And are not the like Circular Motions and variety of Powers understood in Man And is not he a little World out of the great In him is contained the true Nature and Operation of all Elements and yet what great Matters can he do or perform without Motion and Action Are not all these necessary things that serves for the support and accommodation of Human Life are not nor cannot be procured without

Distempers according to the Nature of each Constitution Country and Clymate as Consumptions Palsies Fevers Gout Stone and the like Secondly It is also to be noted and considered the boyling of Hops two three or four hours in Beer is a thing of a pernicious Consequence tho' it be unadvised and ignorantly practised they falsly imagine that there Drink will become the better thereby whereas indeed they do by that Error in a great measure evaporate or suffocate the pure Spirits which are the Preservers of the sweet friendly Balsamick Body in all things whence the amiable meek or mild opening quality do exist which whilst any thing remain intire or unviolated is the Moderater and Qualifier or the harsh bitter astringent Nature therefore Hops and Beer so boyled do prove very injurious to several Constitutions for after Drink is thus prepared the predominant quality in it is hot fulsom strong and bitter and of a restringent Nature and Operation prejudicial to Health especially to all such persons who by their Constitutions are subject or inclinable unto the Stone or Gravel Thirdly It is further to be considered That the boyling of Wort or any Spirituous Liquor that is drawn or extracted from things whose Body is opened by Firmentation as Mault is in a very high degree does not only destroy and evaporate the fine thin subtle Spirits and Quality which are only capable of Penetration but it does as it were fix or stagnate the whole by which it becomes of a grosser fuller or stronger taste in the Mouth which through Use Custom and Ignorance is esteemed a Vertue or Strength but the contrary is to be understood for thereby it becomes of a heavier Operation lies longer in the Stomach sending gross Fumes and Vapours into the Crown and Seldom fails to obstruct the Passages because it hath lost great part of those fine penetrating properties which is easily demonstrated to your Senses viz. Unboyled Wort hath a fine pleasant sweetness in taste and it is of an opening cleansing quality and operation and then taste or drink some of the same Wort boyled with or without Hops and you will find that this last hath not only lost its pleasant taste and sweetness but also its opening penetrating Virtues by which it becomes of another Nature and Operation which Fermentation does in some degree help but it cannot regain those fine thin penetrating Virtues and Spirits that it hath lost in the boyling the fierce heat of the fire being an utter Enemy to all spirituous Drinks Liquors or Cordials It is also to be noted that unboyled Beer or Ale do generally drink smaller in the Mouth then that which is boyled because its spirituous sweet qualities are not so much destroyed suffocated or stagnated by the fiery heat of the fire as the other but it most naturally warms the Stomach and not so subject to send Fumes into the Head and runs quicker thorow the Body purges more powerfully by Urine which are naturally Testimonies of its Virtues and that the better Parts are preserved in the preparation Also it is further to be considered That all sorts of Drinks made without fire altho' with raw crude Fruits Apples Grapes and the like as Wine Syder and many other sorts are not only more spirituous and brisker in operation but also more cleansing and penetrating if order and temperance be observed But note that all sorts of fermented Drinks are much better and greater preservers of Health when new then old or stale for Age does naturally consume and turn the mild soft sweet opening healing Virtues into a hard keen property for this cause all stale Beer old Wine and Sider are far hotter in operation than new and consequently more prejudicial to Health especially to all such as are naturally subject to the Stone Gravel Gout or Consumption for it over-heats the Blood and consumes the Radical Moisture not but that the new Wine Syder Beer or Ale are endued with as great a quantity of Spirits as the old as is manifest in Distillation But so long as the mild sweet opening Virtues remain intire strong and powerful this harsh fire keen or sharp Spirit is thereby moderated qualified or allayed by the sweet Imbraces of those friendly Virtues which friendly quality Age turns into heat sharpness and keneness as is most clearly manifested in the firmenting of all sweet Bodies which no Art can cure or bring back it being easie by the help of the fiery Art to destroy all the mild opening friendly Properties of each thing and turn or transmute them into their Original viz. into a hot strong Spirit but when this is done there is no further Progress to be made for it then stands in its original Qualities and will admit of no cure therefore it is easie to destroy but hard to make alive especially in all Fire Operations and remember this that whensoever any violence is offered to any thing more especially to things that has passed thorough firmentation that the best and friendly Virtues do first suffer Injury or Prejudice which every one ought to understand first in themselves and secondly in all other things more especially in all Preparations by Fire therefore such as would drink Beer or Ale more wholsom may unless they be too old to learn and too obstinate to be taught observe the Rules following which will make your Drink wholsomer and save you both trouble and charge and if neither Profit nor Regard to Health can wean you from the slavery of silly old Custom your Understandings are certainly miserable already and no wonder if your Bodies prove so in a little time First Make your Water or Liquor neer boyling hot then put just so much into your Mash-tub as will wet your Mault stir it and let it stand half an hour which will dispose the Mault the better to give forth its Virtues and Sweetness into the Liquor then add your whole quantity of Water or Liquor to your Mault that you purpose to put up the first time then let it stand one hour and a half but if you would have your first Wort very strong then two hours if the Season be not hot then put what a quantity of Hops you think convenient into your Receiver and let your Wort run to them and after your Hops have infused an hour and half in your Wort then strain it off in your Coolers you have done with your first Wort. Then put upon your Mault your second Liquor near the same Heat as the first rather cooler if any difference but this must stand on your Mault but one hour at most then take what quantity you please of fresh Hops and put into your Receiver as before and let your second Wort run to them then take both second Wort and Hops together and put up into your Copper there let them infuse till your Wort is near boyling but not boyl then strain this also into your Coolers which you have done with also Now if you would

occasion why Brewers Ale in hot Seasons will not keep above four five or six days or there abouts Now the best way to prevent this Evil is that your Coolers are still washed well in cold water wherein some bitter Herbs or Seeds are infused 24 hours as Wormwood gathered and dried as we have taught in our Way to Health and after they are well cleansed with this bitter water then expose your Vessels to the open Air as much as possible you can for nothing sweetens and cleanseth so much as Air also avoid putting your Vessels into Cellars or any close Places where the Air hath not its free influences The like is to be done in the cleansing your Tun in which you work your Drink in The like is to be understood in Ovens for if you bake spicy Foods as Pies and the like and afterwards heat the Oven for small Bread such Bread will be tinged and smell strong of the former things that is if the Oven be heat presently but if the Oven stands open two or three days in which time those spicy qualities will evaporate for the Spirits of things are so quick powerful and subtile that they penetrate even the hardest of Bodies which neither fire nor water can presently extinguish but they remain as it were intire and fixed until a sutable subject matter be offered into which as by Simile they retreat and therewith readily incorporate and therefore remember your Friend the Air and to prevent this and many other Inconveniences expose your Vessels to its free Influences for no Element hath so great power to cleanse sweeten and to give true Life to every thing according to the nature of each as Air and where it has its free Circulation and Influence it destroys all Putrification Vermine and evil Scents But because brewing is become a Trade and such must brew three or four days in a week therefore they have not sufficient time to expose their Vessels to this cleansing Element as Houswives and others that brew only for their own private Families it will therefore be convenient for them to Copper Lead or Tin their Coolers over as also the Mash-tub or Tun they firment or work there drink in but Copper and Tin is best which will in a great degree prevent the souring or pricking of their Ale in Summer and their Beer will have the same advantage for the sweet Spirits cannot so easily penetrate those hard Metaline Bodies nor will so great a quantity of Humidity enter and that which does will not become sharp nor sour as in wood having no such subject matter to work on It is also to be noted That your Wort ought to stand very thin or shallow in your Coolers for that will preserve it from fretting and growing sharp or keen if the other Circumstances before-mentioned be observed Moreover your Wort ought to be as it were quite cold before it be put together to work● for if it be set together too hot it will firment so violently and in a moments time irritate and awaken the hot sharp fiery Spirit which should not be stirred up which spends and destroys the pure fine Spirit and sweet Body and consequently cause your Beer or Ale to grow stale to fast Nor ought you when your Beer or Ale is in the Tun to beat your Yest or Balm into it as the Custom of some Brewers is especially in and about London which is very prejudicial to Health and ought to be restrained by some Law for this beating of the Yest into the drink does so mix and as it were incorporate them together and flatten or suffocate the fine penetrating Virtues that in its firmentation the gross excrementitious Matter cannot seperate from the finer Parts by which means it does retain a strong gross and fulsom sweetness which too many ignorant People admire and count good and nourishing but in truth such Liquors fail not to fur foul and obstruct the Stomach and Passages sending dark dulling Fumes and Vapors into the Head and also generate an hard gritty quality in People subject to the Stone and Gravel Also such Drinks are of evil consequence to Women who are of tender Natures and weaker Spirits and Heats than Men therefore let them refrain the same if they have any respect to their own and their Childrens Healths The usual Course in brewing is to let your Drink work in the Tun till it begins to fall or firment more gently and then to Tun it up into your Casks which new motion and agitation puts the Drink upon a fresh firmentation and causes it oftentimes to work again as fierce and eagerly as it did at first or more which is apt to make it fret or spend it self for much or fierce working makes all Drinks to grow keen and stale sooner then when its firmentation is moderate It will indeed in such Case become fine somewhat sooner because the volatile Spirits and sweet Body is wasted or rather turned into sharpness by the two long and fierce firmentation Therefore those that have a mind to avoid this Inconveniency ought to Tun or put up their Drink young as the Brewers calls it that is before it hath firmented too much viz. so soon as your Drink works you ought to Tun it into the Barrels or Vessels and you need not doubt but it will work sufficiently nay you may when your Wort is thorough cold mix your Yest well with your Wort and put it into your Vessels presently and it will do extraordinary well Now if any think that so short a time of Infusion as I have prescribed will not get out the Virtue and Goodness of the Hops without boyling of them stoutly I answer That all the mild friendly virtues of Hops lyes as it were outward and ready which with the least violence are drawn forth as appears by that delicate Scent and Odor which they cast abroad nay so free and tender they are that if they be not close ram'd or stuffed into Baggs the very Air shall steal away most of their Excellency and if so what will the fierce heat and violent boyling do which every considerate wise man ought to consider Now as to the Nature of Hops there is in them a most excellent glance or friendly opening quality more especially if they were dried in the Sun which is to be preferred before the Host or Kill for the spirituous parts of this Plant is so nice that it cannot indure any violent heat without prejudice to its fine Virtues and you might almost as rationally make your Hay that way which if you should be so dull as not to perceive your folly I doubt not but your bruit Beasts would upbraid you of indiscretion and teach you the difference Hops naturally purges powerfully by Urine if prepared and used with understanding so that they are unjustly charged to breed the Stone for on the contrary they are a special Remedy against it if orderdered with judgment and as they