alas, how are such deceived that know no other than that it is the pure
Product of the Malt, when at the same time they are driving Nails into
their Coffins, by impregnating their Blood with the corrupt Qualities of
this poisonous acid, as many of its Drinkers have proved, by suffering
violent Head-achs, loss of Appetite, and other Inconveniencies the Day
following, and sometimes longer, after a Debauch of such Liquor; who would
not perhaps for a great reward swallow a Spoonful of thick Yeast by
itself, and yet without any concern may receive for ought they know
several, dissolved in the Vehicle of Ale, and then the corrosive
Corpuscles of the Yeast being mix'd with the Ale, cannot fail (when
forsaken in the Canals of the Body of their Vehicle) to do the same
mischief as they would if taken by themselves undiluted, only with this
difference, that they may in this Form be carried sometimes further in the
animal Frame, and so discover their malignity in some of the inmost
recesses thereof, which also is the very Case of malignant Waters, as a
most learned Doctor observes.

_Secondly_, They alledge for beating the Yeast into Wort, that it gives it
a fine tang or relish, or as they call it at _London_, it makes the Ale
bite of the Yeast; but this flourish indeed is for no other reason than to
further its Sale, and tho' it may be agreeable to some Bigots, to me it
proves a discovery of the infection by its nauseous taste; however my
surprize is lessen'd, when I remember the _Plymouth_ People, who are quite
the reverse of them at _Dover_ and _Chatham_; for the first are so
attach'd to their white thick Ale, that many have undone themselves by
drinking it; nor is their humour much different as to the common Brewers
brown Ale, who when the Customer wants a Hogshead, they immediately put in
a Handful of Salt and another of Flower, and so bring it up, this is no
sooner on the Stilling but often Tapp'd, that it may carry a Froth on the
Top of the Pot, otherwise they despise it: The Salt commonly answered its