The Empire County argus., 1854-11-25

bAGEK DEER--HS IddhNTdClufe ana COHSuHtPtoH
an the United Ndtes.Beer, or ale, as it is sometimes
called, is fermented and still slowly fermenting
extract of germinated grain or malt. Strictly
speaking, beer is made from barley; but by COM
mon usage the name applies to infusions of many
other substances Beer was undoubtedly known to
the ancients, as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus
mention fermented decoction of barley as one of
the ordinary beverages of the Egyptians They
called it Zythos, or Kourmi, or kourma. The
Egyptian Kourmi was not so strong the Zythos,
and was, moreover, mixed with honey to give it q
mlder flavor. The ancient Britons and Spanards
brewed their beer from wheat and honey calling it
Ceria, or Celia. The early Greeks had beverage
of barley, which they called Pinon. The Thra-
clans had drink browed from barley Or from va
rious kinds of fruit, which they called Bruton--
The Gauls made beer of barley Oh of wheat; the
latter having disagreeable taste and a goat-like
smell The Romans despsed all such beverage
They did not suit their more refined taste. With
the Teutonc people, the Germans and other Scan
dinavians, beer was the national beverage They
brewed it from barley, wheat, or oats, and made it
more pungent and spicy by adding the bark of the
oak, and since the eleventh century, hops. This
drink the Scandinavians called bor and the Anglo
Saxons beor whence the English beer, which is
almost the same in pronunciation. With the intro
duction of hops as an essential ingredient began
the manufacture of the now widely known lager
beer. The term lager" implies that the beer has
been stored for some months, and is about equva-
lent to the English 'stock' ale In 1924 the use of
hops was introduced in the English breweres-
Bavaria and Franconia then furnished all the hops
raised in Great Britain. Wesbier or white beer,
was first made from wheat by Low Dutchman,
Hanskram. at Nuremberg, in 1911. Porter and ale
were first brewed in 1870. The Chinese have a
beverage made of matted wheat and barley of q
very strong nature, which is called carasum The
Japanese make their beer called saki, of rice the
Of Ip1i tbo N1b md bvc-
sinians of barley and wheat, called sasior, or
durrah.
Next to England, Germany produces and con-
sumes the largest quantities of beer. In Germany,
Bavaria may be called the land of brewers; and,
indeed, the Bavarian beer enjoys vast reputation,
thus far mistaken by all the excrtions of rival
brewers in Austria, and the other parts of Germany.
The beers of Erlangen, Kelmbac. Bamberg and
Munich exported in large quantities to the East
and North; and patriotic beer-drinkng German
traveller, will always find his national beverage in
the cities OF Constantine, Pericles, aud Epaminon-
des, and even in the capital of the Promised Land
In Bavaria beer has become an imperative ne
cessiy for the laboring classes. The hard working
man will content himself with meat only on holi-
days provided he can at all times get his usual
quantity of beer. This quantity is by means
SMALL and we do not ovcrate it when say, that Il
gallon per diemis the average allowance Of frugal
beer-drinker. Most of the hard working mechan-
les live more on beer and bread than on anything
else. The Government has been compelled more
than once to diminish the malt tax, in order to pre-
vent raise in the price Of beer, which has always
been followed by serious riots, and in 1884, even by
revolution. In Bavaria, beer is drank for and at
breakfast for and at dinner, takes the place of
coffee in the afternoon, and is poured down at
supper.
In the Rhine provinces, Baden and Wustemberg,
the consumption of wine is far greater than of
beer. AS is well known, they make a palatabe
wine, and all classes prefer it better
Northern Germany produces several kinds of
beer, but none of them can be compared with those
at Bavaria The northern beers are stronger, and
in regard to health more dangerous than any other.
The most known of them are: KocStrH@, double
beer, very strong, remembling the London pale ale
BrOytahn, or white beer of Berlin, a piquant but
fatulent beverage beer Of Casse; M,tmme, (mum,)
beer of Brunswick, first made in 1892, by Oh.
The "Nlum is dark brown, thick, very strong,
and Of sweet taste. 1t is made Of matted wheat,
barley-malt, hops molasses, juniper berries, dried
prunes, and several aromatic herbs.
Almost every German province produces par
tcular kind of beer and its denomination is often
curious and even ridiculous. The beer made at
Boitzenberg Prussia is called bind den ker (tie the
felow,) the beer of Brandenburg, alter claus, Gold
Nick y the beer of Detzsch, kuhSchwaue, (cow's-
tail) the beer of Jena, doUteud. (village devil y
the beer of Kyritz, naord und todtsehlag, (murdcr
and manslaughter;) the beer of Wernigerode,
lu'apen beer, (rascars beer) the beer of Witten-
berg kucknick, (cuckoo;) the beer of Lubeck, Irae
and so
All these beers, however, have been put aside by
the conquering Bavarian hogshead, and to many OF
the above-named sorts remain only the fact that
their names are recorded in the annals of beer pro-
ducten.-N Y. Tribune
REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. = Lieutenant John