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188 dangerous in the process of brewing, one boiling is safer than two, and two safer than three.

No particular objection can be made to two boilings at any time, where that may be found necessary: as we shall be able to show that by proper management, and even with only one copper, the process may be so conducted, that none of the taps need lie any length of time either in the underback or elsewhere, before being conducted to the copper. One boiling, however, is always the safest in summer brewing.

Let the brewings be made of shorter lengths, and the more frequent the better, so as that the yeast may be always preserved in good order.

With only one copper, three boilings must invariably produce unsoundness to a certain extent, in hot weather.

We have, however, encountered individuals so conﬁdent in error, as to insist that they must and would brew the same quantities of malt which they had been accustomed to do, and that with only one copper totally inadequate for the purpose; by which mode of proceeding they invariably produced very unsound beer.

With smaller brewings of only half the quantity of malt, the worts were boiled in one operation, and the beer turned out well; and the trade did not require more than two of these smaller brewings per week. See Summer Brewing.