Curiosities of Ale Beer

John Bickerdyke

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Was observed by the late John Greville Fennell, best known as a contributor to Field, and who, like John of the Dale, was a lover of ale. With him probably originated the idea of.

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• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243737048
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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the history and curiosities of and eer shouldfibulky volumell a may be a subject for surprise to unthinking reader and that surprise will probably be intensified on his le rning that great has been experience in keeping this boo within reasonab e limits and at the same time doing anything li e justice to the subject ince the dawn of our history arley wine has been the drinke for an man and has had no unimportant inflthereforeIt is nglish life and manners uence on somewhat curious hat up to the present among the thousands of books published annually no comprehensive work o n the antiquities of ale and beer h as fou n d place ome yea s ago this strange neglect of so excellent a theme was obse ved by the late John reville en n ell best known as a contributor to and who like J ohn of the ale was a lover of ale With him probably originated the idea of fivoid in our literature lling this occasio n he made extracts from works bearing on the subject and i n time amassed a considerable amount of material hich was however devoid of arrangemen t he was able overtaking him before Old age to commence writi n me to undertakg his proposed book he asked that which from failing health he was u n able to accomplish this assented and at the end of ome mon t preparedhs had a complete scheme of the book with the materials for each ch apter

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caref lly rouped hat arrangement for hich am responsible has with a few slight modificarefully adhered cations been to work did not then proceed further as to carry out my scheme a larg amount of additional matter from urces not then available required few months later my friend was taken seriously ill and fithat on his decease all papersapproaching directed nding his connected wit the book should be placed at my disposal death seems to render a statement of our respective shares in the bo ok desirable When able to resume work on the book with the object of hastening its publication obtained the assistance of my friend Mr M the collection of fresh matter in amplification of that already arranged and the addition of several new features we have considerably increased the cope of the work and it is to be hoped adde to its attracti eness my friend s researches in the ity of on on other e ords is due the bringing to light of many curious fa ts so far as am aware ne er before noticed has also ren ered me g eat assistance in t ose portions of the book in which the antiquitie of the subject are specially treated illustrations have been in most part taken rom rare old works any smoothing away of defects in such relics of the past would be deemed by many an o ence against the antiquarian code of morality they have been reproduced in exact fac simile and will no doubt appeal to those i nterested in art of the earl en raver and amuse man with their q aptly terminating the chapter devoted to an account of the me i inal qualities of ale and beer have ventured to enter upon a short consideration of the leading teetotal rguments In ex tending their denun iations to ale and beer drinkers the total abstainers are in my opinion working a very grievous inj ury on the labouring classes who for centuries have found the g eatest benefishould bearley broth t from the malt liquors use of

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look d upon as temperance drink of the people or in othe words the drink of the temperate have gratefully to ac nowledge the kindness and courtesy accorded me during the preparation of this work by the authorities of t he ritish Museum by harpe ecords lerk of the ity of on on by Mr iggins ler of the rewers ompany and several eminent brewers and a large number of correspondents

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