1. The curious brewer -- 2. The theorist and the thermometer -- 3. Brewery instructors in public and private -- 4. The value of beer -- 5. Chemists, druggists and beer doctors -- 6. Professors in the brewhouse -- 7. Treatises for the trade -- 8. Analysis and synthesis.
Summary
How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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