which she shutteth up close, and suffereth no air to
come into it till it become yellow, and this she reserveth
by itself unto further use, as shall appear hereafter,
calling it brackwoort or charwoort,
and, as she saith, it addeth also to the colour of
the drink, whereby it yieldeth not unto amber or fine
gold in hue unto the eye. By this time also her
second woort is let run; and, the first being taken
out of the furnace, and placed to cool, she returneth
the middle woort unto the furnace, where it is stricken
over, or from whence it is taken again, when it beginneth
to boil, and mashed the second time, whilst the third
liquor is heat (for there are three liquors), and
this last put into the furnace, when the second is
mashed again. When she hath mashed also the last
liquor (and set the second to cool by the first),
she letteth it run, and then seetheth it again with
a pound and a half of new hops, or peradventure two
pounds, as she seeth cause by the goodness or baseness
of the hops, and, when it hath sodden, in summer two
hours, and in winter an hour and a half, she striketh
it also, and reserveth it unto mixture with the rest
when time doth serve therefore. Finally, when
she setteth her drink together, she addeth to her
brackwoort or charwoort half an ounce of arras, and
half a quarter of an ounce of bayberries, finely powdered,
and then, putting the same into her woort, with a handful
of wheat flour, she proceedeth in such usual order
as common brewing requireth, Some, instead of arras
and bays, add so much long pepper only, but, in her
opinion and my liking, it is not so good as the first,
and hereof we make three hogsheads of good beer, such
(I mean) as is meet for poor men as I am to live withal,
whoso small maintenance (for what great thing is forty
pounds a year, computatis computandis, able
to perform?) may endure no deeper cut, the charges
whereof groweth in this manner. I value my malt
at ten shillings, my wood at four shillings (which
I buy), my hops at twenty pence, the spice at twopence,
servants’ wages two shillings sixpence, with
meat and drink, and the wearing of my vessel at twenty
pence, so that for my twenty shillings I have ten
score gallons of beer or more, notwithstanding the
loss in seething, which some, being loth to forego,
do not observe the time, and therefore speed thereafter
in their success, and worthily. The continuance
of the drink is always determined after the quantity
of the hops, so that being well hopt it lasteth
longer. For it feedeth upon the hop, and holdeth
out so long as the force of the same continueth, which
being extinguished, the drink must be spent, or else
it dieth and becometh of no value.