•“The proper season for brewing is between October and March but reigning opinion is not reliable for the former is too warm and the latter too close to spring.  The water may in October still have the smell of the weeds that have grown in it.   Some waters likewise breed innumerable quantities of insects and this is said to cause a very strong fermentation.”  (Poole 1783, from The Craft Of House-Brewing, Clive LaPense)