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Cheap Imitation Cider
Take water, 35 gallons; sulphuric acid, enough to make the water pleasantly sour; brown sugar, simply to obtain an infusion of the malt. In the second, this infusion of malt is further impregnated with the flavor of the hops in the boiling, which is requisite for the preservation of the beer. In the third, this decoc-sufficient to convert the flour of the malt into tion or infusion is cooled down to the necessary sugar, or to extract the saccharine matter heat for fermentation, which is excited with from it. For pale malt the heat of the wayeast, and which fills it with carbonic gas, ter must be higher than for brown, and so giving to the liquor that pungent taste for much the lower in proportion as the malt is which it is esteemed. After this it is fined, browner. Thus, for the pale malt, the heat or cleansed, to render it fit for drinking.