Then pour it out of the Copper into a fit vessel or vessels to
cool. Then Tun it up in a strong and sweet cask, and let it stand in some
place, where there is some little warmth; (It will do as well without
warmth, but be longer growing ripe) This will make it work. At first a
course foul matter will work over; to which purpose it must be kept always
full with fresh Liquor of the same, as it worketh over. When it begins to
work more gently, and that which riseth at the top, is no more foul, but is
a white froth; then fill and stop it up close, and set it in a cool cellar,
where it is to stand continually.
After half a year or a year, you may draw it off from the Lees into a clean
vessel, or let it remain untouched. It is not fit to be drunk for it's
perfection till the sweetness be quite worn off, yet not to be sower, but
vinous. You may drink it at meals instead of wine, and is wholesomer and
better then wine.
To small Meath, that is to be drunk presently, you may put a little Ginger
to give it life, and work it with a little barm. If the Meath work not at
all, it will nevertheless be good, and peradventure better than that which
worketh; but it will be longer first, and the dregs will fall down to the
bottom, though it work not.
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