PRESERVATION OF HOPS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 62, 13 November 1880, Page 4 (Supplement)

PRESERVATION OF HOPS.

The principal ie&tnre in this new system consists in sprinkling the hops whh- alcohol prior to paoking, and then pressing tbem tightly into air-tight vessels^ In course of time the alcohol combines' with some of tbe constituents of the hop, and certain-' volatile 1 ethers are thns formed;' I^ these possess ' a strong and peooliar fruity smell, but being very volatile, they are all dissipated during the boiling. Dr. Linter has experimented on these preserved hops at- Weihenfitephen, and speaks well ot thtm; he says the fine colour ib retained and there is a- full development of aroma; the fermentation of worts made with theße hops j worked well, .and the resulting beer possessed a fine ; bitter flavour; If this method of sprinkling with alcohol will stop tbe development of valerianio add, whioh takes place in hops when stored in the usual manner,, it ought to oomeinto general use.—S cientific American.

Haiiltjowimon o» me Sauflßfl.— Prol&Bflor Mandsle? remarks, ia a teeenh lecture, thatone striking feature observed by medioal men who have had- oases of hallucination under their ohaxge is that the patients cannot be convinced that the objects they see, the sounds they bear, and the smells they perceive, have no real existence, and that the sensations they xeoeive ate' the result of their excited nerves. It frequently, happens, too, that a person who Buffers from hallucination in ißflpeot oi oto sense bw ihe oihen n&Affefiied, and is, on all other matters,' perfectly normal. Hallucination may arise either from an' idea on Whioh the mind has dwelt, appearing as something exteri6r, or from excitement of the sensory ganglia. It is said that Newton, Hunter, and some others of equal professional eminence, could, at will, pioture forms to themselves till" they afpeareatoberealitieji, ■' ,"* *-