ABSTRACT
One of the interesting side-issues that arises from a study of the distilling and brewing industries of the eighteenth century is the close connexion existing between them and the agricultural economy of the country. Distillers’ waste consisted of the spent ‘grains’ left after the infusion of the barley and malt and the ‘wash’ from the resulting first extraction when the spirits had been distilled from it. The practice of carrying cattle is adopted by many of the feeders, particularly at the distillery in Vauxhall, and is found to answer remarkably well. In Scotland the point always stressed is that the livestock kept through the distilleries provided manure essential for maintaining, and extending, the general fertility of the farms. The grains from brewing had always played a part in the domestic economy of the farm and the country estate.
