ABSTRACT
The British School of Malting and Brewing, a department of the University of Birmingham, was founded in the year 1899 in connection with the Mason University College, from which sprang the existing university. The Municipal School of Technology, like so many other educational institutions which within the last generation have risen into a position of prominence, arose out of a comparatively humble origin. The value of the site, buildings, and equipment is upwards of £370,000. Possibly some readers may be disposed to ask why such a business as making beer should form part of a university, or why a laboratory and a professor are called for in connection with such a long-established industry. The business of a works laboratory is, naturally, not general, but is concerned exclusively with the operations actually carried on or prospective.
