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.
Esto era, en verdad, un capricho y, a menudo, me reprochaba mi ingenuidad, pues me daba cuenta de que para hacer cerveza necesitaba muchas cosas que no podía procurarme. No disponía de barriles para conservarla, que, como ya he dicho, nunca logré fabricar, a pesar de que pasé muchos días, más bien, semanas y meses intentándolo sin ningún éxito.