| Show ANTIQUITY OF BEER AND ALE beverage was waa in common use in ger I 1 many in the timo time of Ta tacitus eltus deer beer Is a liquor made from any tarl fart nailous grain but generally gene fally from barley which Is malted and ground and KB its fermentable substance extracted by hot water this extract or infusion Is evaporated by boiling in cal drons and hops hopa or some gome other plant of agreeable bitterness added tho the liquor iff 14 then buffered tred to ferment in vats alo Is a liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation it chiefly differs from beer in havink having a cmiller proportion of hops both are ara intoxicating liquors tho the manufacture of beer and its use or ap an intoxicating drink are of very high antiquity herodotus tells fells us that owing to the want of wine tho egyptians drank a liquor fermented from barley ale or beer was in common use in germany in tho the time of tacitus tua all the nations says pliny who inhabit tho the west of europe have a liquor with which they they intoxicate themselves of corn and water the manufacture of ale was early introduced into Eu england gland it is mentioned in tho the laws of ina king of wea ives nor and is particularly specified among the liquors provided for a royal in the th reign of edward edvard tho aft |
