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 FITTINGS-UP OF VILLA OFFICES. 1025 A very complete plan of a brewery, which was fitted up in 2050. The Brewtrif. Mr. Vokins's Gre- cian villa, fig. 1 599, has been furnished ~ to us by that gen- tleman. Fig. 18. SO is the ground plan, in which a is the brew-house,having an oven, B, on one side, and two cel- lars, C C, for ale and beer, on the other. In the brew- house, A, z is a dotted line indica- ting the situation of a gallery, by which access may be had to the two boilers, a a; b is the situation of the mash-tub ; c, that of a tub or cistern for receiving the wort, or decoction from the malt, pre- viously to its being pumped up to the boilers; d d, &c., are coolers, or sliallow troughs, on different levels, falling by steps from the boiler at y to the working tun aX x ; e, x are two working tuns, the direction of D E ; in which / is the gallery ; g g, the two boilers ; h, the mash-tub ; and i, the under-back, or tub for re- ceiving the wort when it runs off from the malt in the mash- tub. In the process of brew- ing, the malt is brought through the door, k, into the gallery, /, and dropped down into the mash- tub, h, into which boiling water is introduced by means of the two cocks shown in the boilers, g g. When the decoction is completed in h, the wort is let down through a hole in the bottom of that tub, to the tub, «', from which it is pumped up to the boilers, boiled in them, and then let off by cocks to the cool- ers, d d, from which it passes round nearly three sides of the building to the tuns, e e, where it is worked, and from these con- veyed into the casks in the cel- lars by a leathern pipe. In this small building three hogsheads can be brewed at a time; the coolers being capable of hold- ing that quantity when filled onlv G K Fi£ T831 is a section, taken in 1831