The Hydrometer Code
Back home in rural Hampshire other things intervene with his ambitions - his father's opposition to change, an arranged marriage, and behind the scenes machinations by a banker and lawyer intent on annexing the brewery for themselves.
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His opponents are overcome by a chain of results intitiated by his father's affair with a married woman and his enemies' attempts to exploit this affair. Beavershaft is left in sole control of the brewery, unexpectedly in love with his young wife who is expecting his heir, and with his scientific work proceeding well. Life looks very good to him, but then he is undone by a man he once called a friend, who had shown him many of the pleasures available in London when he had visited there.
This man uses the public's propensity to riot and their animosity towards Dissenters from the Established Church to further his own ends. Beavershaft loses all in a cataclysmic scene of violence, mayhem and destruction. Disappointed but undaunted he comes to terms with his losses and rebuilds his life, recommences and completes his scientific work only to be thwarted when he attempts to publish his results. Still determined he goes back to London to try to persuade publshers to take on his findings.
In doing so he happens upon the ex-friend who ruined him earlier and ponders his revenge. The story is set in a town in rural Southern England, and in London. Both settings are vividly described, especially the teeming, vibrant, bawdy, crime-ridden, boisterous and sexually-liberated City as it began to enter the Industrial Era.
A central point of the story is the adaptation of the hydrometer for use in brewing, a major advance in brewing science, and an event which actually ocurred during the time-frame of the story. Read more Read less. Here's how restrictions apply. About the Author Terence Foster is a Ph. Start reading The Hydrometer Code on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle?
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. He is led into a marriage with a former actress placed by a pair of schemers who aim to take control of his father's brewery. At the same time he is busy using their capital to expand the brewery, using his own ideas and plans for novel equipment. He also successfully continues his scientific work in secret, and when his wife conceives a child all seems well in his life. But his father dies in surprising circumstances, and the schemers seem set to implement their plan.
Can Beavershaft thwart them, and if he does what will he do about the unexpected threat from another quarter? This is his wife's former lover who had been sentenced to transportation through the wiles of the schemers.
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But he has escaped and may be waiting his chance to reclaim Beavershaft's wife, using riot and violence if necessary. And is John's scientific work as original as he thought? The novel shows much about love, life and ambition in 18th century England, with vivid descriptions of both a small Hampshire town and the teeming, brawling, lawless city that was London at that time, as well as casting light on a significant period in English brewing history. Read more Read less.
Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. In this position he specialized in the application of chemicals to mineral beneficiation processes such as flotation, solvent extraction and lixiviation. This meant that he travelled all over the world, dealing with gold, silver, diamonds, and a variety of base metals, and working in countries as far apart as Australia, Zambia, and Russia when it was still behind the "Iron Curtain". He has been interested in brewing for many years, brewing his own beer at home, and now consulting for a brewpub in New Haven, CT.
He has written four books on brewing, one in England, and three in the US, as well as numerous articles for a variety of magazines in both Britain and the US. He is also a contributor to the newly-published Oxford Companion to Beer.
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A major interest is the history of brewing, especially that of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England. He lives in Stratford CT, and divides his time between playing tennis, brewing, and regular trips back to England.
He is also fond of reading fiction having read James Joyce's Ulysses from beginning to end! He is, of course also fond of drinking English-style ales, especially the myriad offerings from US craft brewers. Product details File Size: Terence Foster December 17, Publication Date: Terence Foster 17 December Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. I found the writing style to be mostly adolescent, with it's preoccupation with sexual debauchery and lack of character developement. Not to mention the many typographical errors. At one point the author forgets the name of his protagonist, and in doing so writes the passage in such a way as to make it seem as if the character has forgotton his own name.
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There is more commentary in this story regarding entanglements with prostitutes and general lechery than the business of brewing beer. The author seems more intent on portraying women as either whores or babbling idiots or both than he does on giving any insight on the history of brewing during that time period. Even so, he the author could not even be bothered to imgine a suitable ending for this meandering tale of his comically ill fated protagnist.