Molosses or Treacle has certainly been formerly made too much use of in
the brewing of Stout Beer, common Butt Beers, brown Ales and small Beer
when Malts have been dear: But it is now prohibited under the Penalty of
fifty Pounds for every ten Pounds weight found in any common Brewhouse,
and as Malts are now about twenty Shillings _per_ Quarter, and like to be
so by the Blessing of God, and the Assistance of that invaluable excellent
Liquor for steeping Seed Barley in, published in a late Book intituled,
_Chiltern and Vale Farming Explained_: There is no great danger of that,
Imposition being rife again, which in my Opinion was very unwholsome,
because the Brewer was obliged to put such a large quantity of Treacle
into his water or small wort to make it strong Beer or Ale, as very
probably raised a sweating in some degree in the Body of the drinker: Tho'
in small Beer a lesser quantity will serve; and therefore I have known
some to brew it in that for their Health's sake, because this does not
breed the Scurvy like Malt-liquors, and at the same time will keep open
the Pipes and Passages of the Lungs and Stomach, for which purpose they
put in nine Pounds weight into a Barrel-Copper of cold water, first mixing
it well, and boiling it briskly with a quarter of a Pound of Hops or more
one Hour, so that it may come off twenty seven Gallons.


_A Method practiced by a Victualler for Brewing of Ale or_ October _Beer
from_ Nottingham.


His Copper holds twenty four Gallons, and the Mash Tub has room enough for
four and more Bushels of Malt. The first full Copper of boiling water he
puts into the Mash Tub, there to lye a quarter of an Hour, till the steam
is so far spent, that he can see his Face in it, or as soon as the hot