Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

by James Sumner

How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

From an oral culture derived from home-based skills, brewing industrialized rapidly and developed an extensive trade literature, based increasingly on the authority of chemical experiment. The role of taxation is also examined, and the emergence of brewing as a profession is set within its social and technical context.

Genres: Beer, Technology, Science

316 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2013

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

http://www.jbsumner.com/brewinghistor...
Have a review from Technology and Culture too.

Pretty good but the ebook is full of typos--fairly consistent typos--like it was OCRd or some shit. Not horribly bad but, of course, still distracting.

[ABAY · Rating 5 out of 5]

good