End of causing the Tiplers to become dryer by the great Quantities they
drank, that it farther excited by the biting pleasant stimulating quality
the Salt strikes the Palate with. The Flower also had its seducing share
by pleasing the Eye and Mouth with its mantling Froth, so that the Sailors
that are often here in great Numbers used to consume many Hogsheads of
this common Ale with much delight, as thinking it was intirely the pure
Product of the Malt.

Their white Ale is a clear Wort made from pale Malt, and fermented with
what they call ripening, which is a Composition, they say, of the Flower
of Malt, Yeast and Whites of Eggs, a _Nostrum_ made and sold only by two
or three in those Parts, but the Wort is brewed and the Ale vended by many
of the Publicans; which is drank while it is fermenting in Earthen Steens,
in such a thick manner as resembles butter'd Ale, and sold for Twopence
Halfpenny the full Quart. It is often prescribed by Physicians to be drank
by wet Nurses for the encrease of their Milk, and also as a prevalent
Medicine for the Colick and Gravel. But the _Dover_ and _Chatham_ People
won't drink their Butt-Beer, unless it is Aged, fine and strong.


_Of working and fermenting_ London _Stout Beer and Ale_.


In my Brewhouse at _London_, the Yeast at once was put into the Tun to
work the Stout Beer and Ale with, as not having the Conveniency of doing
otherwise, by reason the After-worts of small Beer comes into the same
Backs or Coolers where the strong Worts had just been, by this means, and
the shortness of time we have to ferment our strong Drinks, we cannot make
Reserves of cold Worts to mix with and check the too forward working of
those Liquors, for there we brewed three times a Week throughout the Year,