OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 182, 3 August 1871, Page 5

OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

We visited our local brewery the other day to inspQGt the refrigerator latt'Jy titled up by our enterprising brewers, Messrs Hustings and Kofoed. Coin pared with the old process of cooling the beer, the first thing that attracts attention in this patent cooler i 9 the small space it occupies. Standing upright, it only occupies 12ft. x 6ft., ami reminds one of a huge cloibes horse, with a tube winding horizontal to and fro, from top to bottom, having twenty- five windings — each having the appearance of a separate and independent pipe. There is a constant flow of cold water passing through the same, let in at the bottom, and forced by hydraulic pressure to the top, when it escapes. The beer, on the other hand, is received from the boiler into a trough fixed on the top of the refrigerator, in the bottom of which trough are small apertures through which the beer falls, at a temperature of 200°, on the tirst line of the tube, after passing round which, the liquid is spi-ead by a saw-shaped piece of copper attached to the tube, and falls on the second line of tube, beautifully distributed. The same process goes on until the liquid reaches the last line of tube, when it discharges itself into a trough, and from thence to the fermenting tun on the floor underneath. The temperature of the beer from te time it leaves the top trough, to the time it reaches the bottom one, is reduced from 200° to 69°, or as much more or less as is found nece&sary. By means of a valve in the pipe, the cold water can be forced through the copper tube at any speed, and as a matter of course, th--quicker it flows the lower will be the temperature. Hence, by this invention, the brewer, if he has a good supply of water at a sufficient elevation, is independent altogether of climatic influences. The saving of time is another matter of great importance. What by the old process will occupy a day can be done by the refrigerator in two or three hours. .Messrs. Bastings and Kofood seem determined to brin^ every appliance of modern invention to their assistance in producing a superior article. They are doubtless pursuing the proper c mrse to increase their trade, and work it economically — two great secrets in all businesses at the present time.