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Author Sumner, James (James Brinton)

Title Brewing science, technology and print, 1700-1880 / by James Sumner.

Publication Info. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 19
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Brewing -- History -- 18th century.
Brewing.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Brewing -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Beer industry -- History -- 18th century.
Beer industry.
Beer industry -- History -- 19th century.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sumner, James. Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880. London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, ©2013 9781848934238
ISBN 9781781440483 (electronic book)
1781440484 (electronic book)
9781781443682
1781443688
9781848934238
1848934238 (hardback)