1871 Barkeeper's ready reference

BARKEEPERS READY REFERENCE.

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No. 89. CIDER.

To keep cider good is one thing, but to make good cider out of bad is quite another. It cannot be done, and you only waste your time with it. To keep good cider put a large handful of good hops into the barrel and let it work off the pumice. Fill up the bar- rel as it runs out at the bung with clean rain water, for if you use cider you will never get done fermenting. When it ceases to send -up pumice rock off into a clean cask, smoked with sulphur, and put it away in a cool dry cellar. It will keep for years.