Note 162 — Chapter VII · New Process for the Manufacture of Beer.

M. Galland, a brewer in Maxéville, near Nancy, published with his name, in November, 1875, a pamphlet, which was reproduced in the brewing journals of that date, bearing the title, It is said, “the air being impure, let us exclude it;” I say, “The air being impure, let us purify it.” These two aphorisms, together or apart, constitute the essential novelty of my researches on beer, and M. Galland is mistaken in attempting to appropriate the merit of the second alternative (see my note in the Comptes rendus of the 17th November, 1873, and the text of the letters-patent obtained 13th March of that year). M. Galland has devised some arrangements for putting the latter of these two schemes into practice; but it is possible, of course, to effect this in a variety of ways. M. Velten, a brewer in Marseilles, had already accomplished this in his efforts to carry out practically the procedure advocated in the present work.