water is put in, throws a Pail or two of cold water into it, which will
bring it at once into a temper; then he lets three Bushels of Malt be run
leisurely into it, and stirred or mash'd all the while, but as little as
can be, or no more than just to keep the Malt from clotting or balling;
when that is done, he puts one Bushel of dry Malt on the Top to keep in
the Vapour or Spirit, and so lets it stand covered two Hours, or till the
next Copper full of water is boiled hot, which he lades over the Malt or
Goods three Hand-bowls full at a time, that are to run off at the Cock or
Tap by a very small stream before more is put on, which again must be
returned into the Mash Tub till it comes off exceeding fine, for unless
the wort is clear when it goes into the Copper, there are little hopes it
will be so in the Barrel, which leisure way obliges him to be sixteen
Hours in brewing these four Bushels of Malt. Now between the ladings over
he puts cold water into the Copper to be boiling hot, while the other is
running off; by this means his Copper is kept up near full, and the Cock
spending to the end of brewing his Ale or small Beer, of which only twenty
one Gallons must be saved of the first wort that is reserved in a Tub,
wherein four Ounces of Hops are put and then it is to be set by. For the
second wort I will suppose there are twenty Gallons of water in the Copper
boiling hot, that must be all laded over in the same manner as the former
was, but no cold water need here be mixed; when half of this is run out
into a Tub, it must be directly put into the Copper with half of the first
wort, strain'd thro' the Brewing Sieve as it lies on a small loose wooden
Frame over the Copper, to keep back those Hops that were first put in to
preserve it, which is to make the first Copper twenty one Gallons; then
upon its beginning to boil he puts in a Pound of Hops in one or two Canvas
or other coarse Linnen Bags, somewhat larger than will just contain the
Hops, that an allowance may be given for their swell; this he boils away
very briskly for half an Hour, when he takes the Hops out and continues
boiling the wort by itself till it breaks into Particles a little ragged,