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Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889.
Hard Cover, 449 pages, 6.5 x 10.
Item #1343
Here's a first edition 118-year-old copy of John Bickerdyke's cornerstone work, Curiosities of Ale & Beer. Published in 1889, the 449-page volume is an astonishingly colorful look at brewing lore and history beginning with ancient Egypt and running up through late 19th century England. See Table of Contents below. What an incredible resource of brewing fun, fact and fancy! Includes over 50 woodcut illustrations. » Just want an inexpensive reading copy? Click Here. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1
• Suppression of Beer-shops in Egypt 2,000 B.C.
• Brewing in a Teapot
• Ale Songs
• Distinction between Ale and Beer
• Ale
• Knights' objection to Sack
• Hogarth and Temperance
• Importance of Ale to the Agricultural Labourer
• Sir John Barleycorn introduced to the Reader CHAPTER 2
• Origin and Antiquity of Ale and Beer CHAPTER 3
• Home-brewed Ales
• Old Receipts
• Historical Facts
• Dean Swift on Home-brew
• Christopher North's Brew-house CHAPTER 4
• Use and Importance of Hops in Beer
• Their Introduction and History
• Hop-growers' Troubles
• Medicinal Qualities
• Economical Uses
• Hop-pickers CHAPTER 5
• Ancient and Curious Laws relating to the manufacture and sale of Ale and Beer CHAPTER 6
• Brewing and Malting in Early Times
• The Ale-wives
• The Brewers of Old London and the Brewers' Company
• Anecdotes
• Quaint Epitaphs CHAPTER 7
• Various Kinds of Ales and Beers
• Some Foreign Beers
• Receipts
• Songs
• Anecdotes CHAPTER 8
• Ale houses: Their origin
• Hospitality in Medieval Times
• Old London Inns and Taverns
• Anecdotes of Inns and Inn-keepers
• Curious Signs
• Signboard and Ale-house Verses
• Signboard Artists
• Ale-house Songs and Catches CHAPTER 9
• Ancient Merry-Makings, Feasts and Ceremonies peculiar to certain Seasons, at which Ale was the principal Drink
• Harvest Home, Sheep-shearing, and other songs CHAPTER 10
• The Ales
• Ale at Breakfast
• Bequest of Ale
• Drinking Customs
• A Sermon on Malt
• Excesses of the Clergy
• Anecdotes CHAPTER 11
• Old Ballads, Songs and Verses relating to Ale and Beer CHAPTER 12
• Brewing in the Present Day
• Anecdotal and Biographical Account of some representative London, Dublin, Burton and Country Brewing Firms
• Edinburgh Ales CHAPTER 13
• Porter and Stout
• Circumstances which led to their Introduction
• Value to the Working Classes
• Anecdotes
• "A Pot of Porter Oh!" CHAPTER 14
• Beverages compounded of Ale or Beer, with a number of Receipts
• Ancient Drinking Vessels
• Various Uses of Ale other than as a Drink CHAPTER 15
• Old Medical Writers on Ale
• Adulteration of Ale
• Advantages of Malt Liquors to Labouring Classes
• Temperance versus Total Abstinence
• Anecdotes
• Gay's Ballad APPENDIX
• Pasteur's Discoveries
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