cellaring

Updated: May 2, 2025

Now the old mead of those days, brewed of the purest first-year or maiden honey, four pounds to the gallon with its due complement of white of eggs, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, rosemary, yeast, and processes of working, bottling, and cellaring tasted remarkably strong; but it did not taste so strong as it actually was.

- The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1

This is the Cafe, and a Cellar should be thus dispos'd if we expect to have good Drink. As for the Brewing Part itself, I shall leave that to the Brewers in the several Counties in England, who have most of them different Manners even of Brewing honestly. What I shall chiefly touch upon, besides what I shall speak of Cellaring, will relate to Water, Malt, Hops, and the keeping Liquors.

Richard Bradley - The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm

Where there is good Cellaring, therefore, it is adviseable to brew a flock of Small Beer, either in this Month or October, or in both Months, and to be kept in Hogsheads, if possible: The Beer brew'd in March to begin drawing in October, and that brew'd in October to begin in March, for Summer drinking; having this regard to the quantity, that a Family of the same number of working Persons, will drink a third more in Summer than in Winter,

Richard Bradley - The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm

Now the old mead of those days, brewed of the purest first-year or maiden honey, four pounds to gallon, with its due complement of whites of eggs, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, rosemary, yeast, and processes of working, bottling, and cellaring, tasted remarkably strong; but it did not taste so strong as it actually was.

- Stories by English Authors: England

Now the old mead of those days, brewed of the purest first-year or maiden honey, four pounds to the gallon with its due complement of white of eggs, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, rosemary, yeast, and processes of working, bottling, and cellaring tasted remarkably strong; but it did not taste so strong as it actually was.

Thomas Hardy - Wessex Tales

But all Malt-Liquors, however they may be well-brew'd, may be spoiled by bad Cellaring, and be now and then subject to ferment in the Cask, and consequently turn thick and sour.

Richard Bradley - The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm