The Theory and Practice of Brewing Illustrated - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. The most modern and curious invention relating to the art of brewing; shewing proportions of twenty-one original ingredients and combinations to produce a new beverage that was intended to supersede beer. COPY OF SPECIFICATION. EXTRACTING A DRINK OR BEVERAGE FROM VARIOUS ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. (This Invention did not proceed to the Great Seal.) Complete Specification filed by Patrick O'Malley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on the 15th July, 1853, pursuant to the 9th section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852. I, Patrick O'malley, of the City of Dublin, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention of " A New Liquid Beverage," to be as follows:-- My invention consists in extracting from various vegetable, floricultural, animal, and other substances occurring in nature a useful and agreeable drink or beverage. And my object is effected by boiling various herbs or other Bubstanccs possessing nutritive and useful qualities in water, with other products or substances having like useful properties, or calculated to give an agreeable aroma or taste to the liquid, and subjecting this liquid to various processes as hereinafter described. In order that my invention may be most fully understood, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I prepare a quantity of my improved beverage, but I nevertheless do not confine myself to the exact quantities or substances which I am about to mention, as same may be somewhat altered to suit certain circumstances. Assuming that it is desired to obtain about six hundred gallons of my beverage, I place the following materials in the following quantities in a boiler of suitable size:-- First, seventy pounds weight avoirdupois of common heath or heathe...