beer engine

object, machine, apparatus, tool, technical instrument

A hand-operated pump used in British pubs to tap beer.

The model still widely in use in Great Britain today is based on an invention by Joseph Bramah in 1797. Johann Conrad Fischer probably saw such a device on his journey in 1814. He called the engine a ‘beer pump’.

Traveljournal 1814

Dover–London, 21–22 August 1814

Traveljournal 1825

A novel beverage pump, 13 June 1825

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: beer engine. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-8525, viewed on 9 May 2025.

[[title]] — Beer tap (lithograph by Dean & Manday, 1833)