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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67797	Cerevisiarii comes, or, The new and true art of brewing, illustrated by various examples in making beer, ale and other liquors, so that they may be most durable, brisk and fragrant and how they may be so ordered, as to yeild the greatest quantity of spirits in distillation : to which is added, the right way to refine and bottle beer and cyder, and a cure for those that are sick and ropy, so as to return them to their internal sanity, as also the true method of manuring lands and the art of making salt water fresh : all proved by demonstration and sound philosophy, to be more agreeable to man's body than otherwise, and so not only fit for english constitutions, but also for transportation : published for the sake of verity, and therefore recommeded to all that esteem demonstrated truths before notional theory / by W.Y. Worth ...	Y-Worth, W. (William)	1692 (1692)	Wing Y216; ESTC R13121	45,081	144

VI. In which we treat concerning the making of several Physical Drinks together with their Vse and Vertues Shewing the right way of Bottleing Beer AS to the Ways of making Physical Drinks they are varirious some being made from Herbs others by the Spirits thereof exalted others by their Essential Salts and their Essences exalted which indeed is the most superior Way but seeing that every Brewer and good Housewife cannot obtain these we shall prescribe such as be of more easie Preparation We see that Beer made from Cypress Cedar Sassafrax Wormwood Scurveygrass Elder Mint Balm c. are highly esteemed especially Purle and Scurvygrass here in England But here is one thing which I cannot omit which is this they take the Herbs at any Season with the Gross and more Vertuous part together and put these into Low Weak Sick Defective or Prick'd Beers and so the Tast of the Herb overpowering the same they think it sufficient the Pallats of the Drinkers being pleased not minding whether they answer the End desired sc the contributing something to the Health of their Drinkers which they cannot thus do seeing they want that Internal Sanity themselves which should perform the same Now seeing it is not only this but much more which might be said of the like Nature we shall recommend three things to the Consideration of every Honest Brewer whereby this Defect may in great Measure be Repaired and Supplyed The first is if you design to make any sort of Physical Beer let your Wort have a Sound Body well wrought and settle three Days and while it hath yet a more Invisible and Secret Fermentation Secondly that you only add in the Tops and choice Parts of such Herbs as are design'd for the same And thirdly That those Herbs lie not so long therein as that their Spiritual Qualities may be so much exhausted that their Terrene ones by the Beer or Liquor should be extracted therefore they ought to be well pounded and macerated and in a small Bag put into the Cask that so after their due Time which may be at the most twenty Days they may be taken out again These being observed you may make excellent Beer or Drinks fully answering the End of their Preparation Also instead of such Herbs as are naturally juicy you may add in the Juice thereof if Elder let it be about two Gallons to a Barrel of Strong Beer but if the Juices are S●iptick Eitter or Astringent then will a smaller Quantity serve You may also have most excellent Physical Ales by adding the Spirits of the Concreats truly prepared about thirty or forty Drops more or less according to their Strength into a Glass of Beer The True Spirit of Salt is an excellent Preserver unto Human Bodies being taken ten or twelve Drops after the same manner It cures the Scurvey resists Putrifaction c. Also eight or ten Drops hereof being dropped into a Quart of New Beer makes it immediately tast St●le and renders it drinkable But above all doth our Spiritus Odon●ugiasas perform this as you may see at large in the Britannean Magazine of Wines Now if you have a mind to have any other Variations in making divers Physical Ales then proceed thus Make a Syrrup of the Herb and put two or three Spoonfuls thereof into the Ale or Beer in Bottleing and a Spoonful or two of the Essence whether it be Oranges Lemons or Scurvygrass Cypress Wormwood Mint Balm or the like And if you practise this your Experience will prompt you beyond Words A Compound Physical Ale good against the Scurvy Dropsy and other Diseases OF Scurvy grass one Peck ℞ Water-Cresces twelve Handfuls Brooklime six handfuls English Rhubard six ounces Horse Radish four ounces Anniseeds and Carraway Seeds of each one ounce Sweet Fennel one ounce Sena one ounce Polipody of the Oak four ounces Raisins stoned and Lent Figs of each eight ounces New Ale five gallons make it S. A. A good way for the Bottling Beer IN the first Place take a little clear Water or else such as is truly impregnated with the Essence of any Herb and to every Quart thereof add half a pound of Mevis Sugar and having very gently boyled and scumed the same adding thereunto a few Cloves let it cool fit to put Barm thereto and being brought to work scum off the same again and while it is in a smiling condition put three spoonfuls thereof to each Bottle and then filling up the same cork fast down A sew Christals of Tartar also do well in Bottling Beer adding a few Drops of the Essence of Barly Essence of Wine or some other Essential Spirits Accept of this Courteous Reader until Opportunity shall admit us to oblige you with things of a more Sublime Nature Postscript IN this Treatise having spoke of Waters in general laying down Rules sufficient to inform any reasonable Man of their Nature and Preparation yet I think it may not be amiss to add a few Words as a Review of the whole that is how Waters are altered by the Accidental Qualities as well as by the Natural ones and from such things that superficially impregnate the Water with something contrary to its internal Texture that is it purges itself therefrom once peradventure in a Natural Day by its being ponderous it joyns with the earthy Qualities in the Water and so precipitates and washes away but however if it is constantly impregnated with such Heterogeneities It much alters the Purity of the Water and makes the Time very uncertain When we take it purged or when its Body is filled with the said Impurity and so one and the same Water shall variously alter in the manner of Decoction and Fermentation being taken at various Times You have an Example of this in Thames water a pure and sine River originally proceeding from a Spring being fed by the influx of many small Rivulents and so increased to such a magnitude as it is so navigable that it challenges many of the European Rivers appertaining unto the Metropolitan Cities but however it hath these Inconveniences as others have also for being near so great a City it receives the Common Shores and from its adjacent Banks various Excrementious Things as Dung Urin Fish-Bones Diers-Liquor Soap-boylers Drugs the Butchers Corruptions and many other Sulphurous Stinking and Slimy Things which wonderfully alter the Water so that sometimes especially if taken in the Time when it is not purged the Wort will not bear boyling but becomes thick and will not kindly Ferment and so drinks flubby unpleasant and shews the like Effects for it will soon Sour and corrupt so that many who use the Thames Water are afraid to boyl their Liquor or Wort sufficient because it will grow thick and this by them is generally observed but the reason thereof not conceived For other Times the Water being taken when it hath purged itself it may be boyled with the same Success as other Waters and the Beer or Ale will be