Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Adulteration, Nutrition, Scientific Practitioners, Expertise

    Ridicules proprietors of bitter ale breweries for puffing their product with the support of numerous 'eminent scientific and medical men of the day', including Justus von Liebig, Thomas Graham, August W von Hofmann, and James Muspratt. Argues that Liebig is a poor judge of beer and suggests the proprietors ask instead the opinion of 'eminent agricultural and bucolic men'.