Beer in Literature - Brewing

Here is another of my periodic posts of passages from books I read that mention beer in interesting ways. The passage below is from 1926's Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner and describes a girl's memory of visiting her father's brewery:

"She always had a taste for botany, she had also inherited a fancy for brewing. One of her earliest pleasures had been to go with Everard (her father) to the brewery and look into the great vats while he, holding her firmly with his left hand, with his right plunged a long stick through the clotted froth which, working and murmuring, gradually gave way until far below through the tumbling, dissolving rent the beer was disclosed."

It is a rare cold, rainy, and windy day in San Diego, which makes the thought of a beer with "clotted froth" giving way and "tumbling, dissolving" to reveal a pint of stout or porter sound pretty good.