after-wortn.

1653 Rules & Direct. for Company of Distillers of London 7 in J. French Art Distillation (ed. 2) No Member or Members of this Company..shall or may, use, dispose, convert or imploy, any After-worts (or Wash, made by the Brewers or others) into Vinegar, Bear-eager, or Ale-eager.

1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 242 Brewers Afterworts, or Wash, called ‘Blew-John’.

1725 J. Moore Englands Interest iv. 62 And for the after Worts, which are not to be kept long, what comes from the first Wort will serve well enough to Boil again with them.

1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. xiii. 83 The After-worts of small Beer comes into the same Backs or Coolers where the strong Worts had just been.

1829 C. Mackenzie Five Thousand Receipts (new ed.) 112/1 The brewer will have a hogshead of good small, made with the second and third coppers of after-worts.

1885 Amer. Chem. Rev. 5 52/2 The whole of the after-worts is then run into the kettle, to be boiled with the hops.

1908 Pure Product 4 235 If the spent grains are again treated with water a second and then a third time, we obtain the so-called afterworts, which contain much less extract than the first, the principle wort.

1968 U.S. Patent 3,402,048 1/1 Any known mashing process may be employed in producing the pre-wort or first wort and the after-wort or second wort.