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Originally Posted by issybird
This article, How to care for homemade wine, from The Household Cyclopedia of General Information uses the phrase "beat up" in its recommendation for how to revive flat wine (scroll down a bit). That may be it. |
Thanks Issybird; this seems to be the answer. An interesting document from the time the book was written.
Having read the different (brutal) treatments of the wine, I don't have a high opinion of British palates in those days......
