This was really a whimsical thought, and I reproved myself often for the simplicity of it: for I presently saw there would be the want of several things necessary to the making my beer that it would be impossible for me to supply; as, first, casks to preserve it in, which was a thing that, as I have observed already, I could never compass: no, though I spent not only many days, but weeks, nay months, in attempting it, but to no purpose.
Szeszélyes gondolat volt, és bár elsőre nem tűnt bonyolultnak, sok minden hiányzott hozzá: hordó, amiben a sört tarthattam volna és amit évekkel előbb sehogy sem sikerült elkészítenem, továbbá komló, élesztő és üst.