To know how much Drink is in the Barrel, either of Beer or Ale.
SUppose you are to Gauge 3 Firkins of Ale in a Beer Barrel, you are to put the Reed
The victualler's friend: or, The use of a new-invented gauging-rod, contriv'd chiefly for the advantage of victuallers in and about London: Whereby they may not only discover the want of measure from the brewer (either in beer or ale) but likewise what quantity they want.
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- The victualler's friend: or, The use of a new-invented gauging-rod, contriv'd chiefly for the advantage of victuallers in and about London: Whereby they may not only discover the want of measure from the brewer (either in beer or ale) but likewise what quantity they want.
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- London :: printed for H Newman, at the Grashopper in the Poultry, and given gratis to those that buy the rod,
- [1695?]
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- Ale -- Taxation -- England
- Beer -- Taxation -- England
- Inventions -- England
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"The victualler's friend: or, The use of a new-invented gauging-rod, contriv'd chiefly for the advantage of victuallers in and about London: Whereby they may not only discover the want of measure from the brewer (either in beer or ale) but likewise what quantity they want." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A95912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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(which you have with your Rod) into the Barrel, as far as you can, then put in the Rod and the Small Cork (which hinder the Yeast to enter the In-side of the Rod) will come out: when you have so done, put your Rod down into the Reed, until the Rod touch the bottom of the Barrel; then pull out the Rod, and if the Liquor wet the Notch at 24 there is 3 Firkins of Ale, or 24 Gallons; and if the Liquor wet the Notch be∣low the Notch at 24 you have but 23 Gallons; and for every Notch below the Notch at 24 you want a gallon of drink.
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Likewise for Beer, put the Rod and Reed into the Barrel, the same way as before, and if the Liquor wet the Notch on the Rod at 36 you have 36 Gallons, but if it wet any of the Notches below that at 36, for every Notch you want a Gallon of Beer.