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Chapter 86
Point XXVIII
Point XXVII.
Brewers by its help may have very strong Beer, if they extract their Hops therewith.
In the like manner also warm Beer may be excited to fermentation.
Mead, and Metheglin, as also Beer, and Canary wine, which are upon the turn, and growing sowre, may by this be rendred drinkable.
Any kind of Drink, whether it be Canary, Metheglin, or Beer, which easily sowre in Summer, if you would amend them, to a Tun of the Liquor put about two or three Ounces of fixed Nitre put up in a Linen Rag into the Bung-hole at the top of the Cask, and let it hang down into the Liquor, then in a short time the sowre Liquor will be rendered drinkable.