This, or even less than this, is contended for by many maltsters, as a sufficient advance of the Acrospire, which, they say, has done its business, so soon as it has passed the middle of the kernel.
"The American Practical Brewer and Tanner"
Joseph Coppinger
By this is meant the farthest advance of the Acrospire, when it is just bursting from its confinement, before it has effected its enlargement.
"The American Practical Brewer and Tanner"
Joseph Coppinger