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The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors watching beer fermenting in a large brewhouse. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Four brewers at work. Engraving, c. 1805.

African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.

Two pictures: two women pounding grain and African people brewing pombe. Lithograph with tint plate.

Technical mycology : the utilization of micro-organisms in the arts and manufactures a practical handbook on fermentation and fermentative processes, for the use of brewers and distillers, analysts, technical and agricultural chemists, pharmacists, and all interested in the industries dependent on fermentation / by Franz Lafar ; translated by Charles T.C. Salter.

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

The young brewer's monitor. Comprising a luminous and scientific summary of that very ancient and important art ... / by a brewer of thirty years practical experience.

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Brewing

Images from the collections

Images about Brewing

Works from the collections

A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

The young brewer's monitor. Comprising a luminous and scientific summary of that very ancient and important art ... / by a brewer of thirty years practical experience.

Brewing

Images from the collections

Images about Brewing

Works from the collections

A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

The young brewer's monitor. Comprising a luminous and scientific summary of that very ancient and important art ... / by a brewer of thirty years practical experience.

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