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THE December (1914) issue of the Journal of the Institute of Brewing is an important number of this publication, and of more than merely technical interest. It contains a series of reports and memoranda upon the subject of the determination of the “original” specific gravity of beer, and the results of the work described have now, by the Finance Act of 1914, been legalised as the basis for checking or determining the charge of duty upon this beverage. The main reports are contributed jointly by Sir Edward Thorpe and Dr. H. T. Brown, and the latter author supplements them by interesting studies of both the historical and the scientific aspect of the question.
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SIMMONDS, C. The “Original” Specific Gravity of Beer . Nature 95, 150–151 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095150a0
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