Rules For Brewing Circa 1747
R U L E S f o r B R E W I N G .
Care must be taken, in the first place, to have the malt clean; and after it is ground, it ought to stand four or five days.
For strong October [ale], five quarters of malt to three hogsheads, and twenty-four pounds of hops. This will afterwards make two hogsheads of good keeping small-beer, allowing five pounds of hops to it.