Malthouses of Ware
Details:
- Author(s) Perman, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 96pp; illus
- Publisher Rockingham Press with Ware Museum
- Place Published Ware
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides an account of malt making at Ware. Chapters include: 'What is malt?'; 'Floor malting'; 'What gave Ware its importance in the malting trade?'; 'A 700 year tradition'; 'Brown malt and porter'; 'New sources of competition'; 'The twentieth century'; 'The Second World War and afterwards'; 'Pauls Malt at Broadmeads'; 'The Ware maltmaker'. In addition, there are two substantial sections: 'Malting dynasties' which gives narrative profiles of maltmaking families, and 'Maltings - past and present' which gives narratives of individual maltings