CONCENTRATING BEER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 29 April 1876, Page 3

CONCENTRATING BEER.

[( At a fecwrifc meeting of the Society of MUta,. t>r. Bartfett described, tn a lengthy Super,. the process of concentrating lieer. U'he inventor o£ the pn>ee»» b Mr. Loefc|vood,. one o£ the t'orcnders of ttweonittmamt [iiillc irutu.-itiy, and the plan adapted is »«ey uiiuiliU - to the process employed in Sl'io preparation of that article, viz. , l>y LoiUug down the titer at a twwt>«.ratttw of It2 dog. in vacvto' until it is remtee«l to a thick aomi-fctnid state, with, Exit a small proportion of the original waterremaining. The alcohol b previomsty extracted I>y a ywitlo distillation, and rw-added when the pmuesu of condensation b complete, the mixture tie tug then scaled «p in earw. A tiiu'vul of beer containing thirty-six gallon# may in this manner, it b stated, lie concentrated it* a tutffe of little over two j/itllutw,. and ait that b wanted to> rcsrtor? the liKVurajfe- to> ifca original condition » the addition of water to the e stent »lesiml. Bint when so mixed the I>eer is nocussartly withotrt twsfcnesa, the whole of carbonic acul having Wn driven off, and to remedy thb the inventor proposes to. stimulate the reproduction of the g»s l»y the addition of a tittle yeast or ttnc»>ndensed liuer.. JPr. Bartlett said Ive had put the re-made t>eer» to the practical teat (if drinking them almost daily, rnd had found thfcnt pleasant to tho palate and snore .flutahte from » dietetic point of view than the general average of lieer. The substantial value of the invention lay, he thought, in its applicability to the preparation of beers for export and for ns« on lioard sliipH.