The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-09
Lagerbier-The New Institution.

We taken pains get at the amount of this
beverage which is consumed here, and the details con-
ords curious information, and shows how easy 1t
becomes for the American palate to acquire taste for
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upon sign boards occasionally through the ces
cabansic inscription to all excepting those who
had partaken Of it made in Bavaria and Throughout.
Germany and to the resident Germans for whose gratf
cation It ut first introduced Yet 1t has bee
popular American drns in which perhaps as ps:uy
not yet acquired the faculty of m6bipg 1t in large
quantities at single sitting as the latter. From Ger
by enthusiastic bier drpke learn the process
Of manufacture which, however, offers somewhat from
the mode In consequence Of the longer
Iod during which it is kept In this climate.
Bavarian bier is Of three knde-lager (store) bier,
book (buck bier, and weiss (whits) bier. The latter Is
considered the greatest luxury, but American ct first
could scarcely swallow It. 1t s made to some extent in
New York and derives its name from the TACT that II
slme colorless The Bavarisns are especially fond Of
it, and A ribute the greatest excellence 10 the first
glasses drawn from : oask, and the most episurean
among them wi entering bier h0us where the bar
hour in order to secure the rst drink from frs.hIy
ed cask. In Mulch and other cities, this work
Informs that the demand ct avorits taps steady
that fresh casks constantly opened every half hour
through the day The taste for the beverage we'll "a
the beverage itself is peculiar to Germany and has de-
seer ded to the German from . remote ancestry. To
teprive him Of it now would almost BE- tanamouut 10
dspriving him of his vital breath.
1t cannot be denied that, as Rluid, lager
tanning nothing but hops and waer no
cocculus indicu. tobacco stems the like entering into
its composition Is is the case with ale and porter We
are unable TO endorse the remark OF Mr.. George Won
Beck who in private letter to last week. ex.oling
the product Of his immense brewery declared there
not a headache in . hegshead Of t;' vt We cannot
ascribe to any effect than to create somnoency
while II doubtless true that lis continued mode
rate quantities s conducive to fAness In Bavaria where
II Is the common beverage of the people, noxication
that person If under the influence OF vi
nous liquors is desarred from society and becomes dis
drinkers here indulge in ardent spirits acquire sp
ger bier intcxicateS" stands like "Wfl sapetre
podef'-yet unsolved The issue was fairly tried
time ago at license trial in Poughkeepsie, where OF
twelve witnesses examined six declared that 1t woui
proc inebriey, while the other sI declared i. would
not.
In this country there are two brewngs annuAly enc
In the fall which IL made for immediate use and another
lager or rest until It becomes drnkable which is in
about four months afterwards The peculiar bitsminous
flavor which characterizes it is derived from coating o.
p CHI which the interior of the casks first received
sure them against leakage, but which practice is now
continued perhaps for the flavor it imparts
for any purpose Ct utility It may serve Large and small
taken together there twenty two breweries this
city devoted the exclusive manufacture Of lager bier
arr the entire value Of their winter brew, which lie not
removed from the lager vaults until May Ia, as
may 5000 0 the price At wholesale being seven dol
lars per barrel In this est mate the fall brew is not in
cudsd This costs lees per barrel than the former be-
ing much less cense and for immediate OF
TIE quantity consumed We found Trustworthy esti-
mate. The largest manufacturers in this city are
hessrs Ergle Volt who out about $40 900 worth
annually but there is another firm that very nearly equal
Them.
Most of the brewers have their larger vaults at and
Fsirmoult and their selection a. to locality
ard their preservation of q proper temperature
all important regulates TO the production Of
prime brew. To the latter the proper graduA
ton which is from forty TO forty five degrees springs of
water wherever they be found, percoate
through the strata OF barrels piled upon each other in
solid The most favorable poton, however, for
lager vault, Is found at Rondout NJ Y where Won Beck
WAC Is the most extensive brewer In America-has
vaults hewn mainly into solid rock, under sharp bluff
upon the de Of the Hudson This vault was excavated
a. An expense OF over fifteen thousand dollars and viii
afford storage for thirty thousand casks at ones.
In the market. however, there is which plesses
the palate of the German who the best adge OF the
article Ike the Philadelphia lager beer This IL owning
the fact that the Sshuy k water far exces any other
for its scture and that the persons engaged in the
business have thoroughly possessed themselves by
periepse in tIans-Atlantic establishments Of ali the
necessary to its most perfect production In fact
"Pbnacephia lager beer Is Of the itutions Of
the day Even the prim, precise trsnscendenta Bos-
tonans displsy little painted glass placards In their
ssurants which 1t is wri ten and in New York and
elsewhere the knowing decline inbbirg any other when
The Philadelphia article is procurable. We close BY re-
king that the 5000 600 worth of the beverage produs
ed by the vner brew when retailed In the usual way
will produce round million Of dollars II Ia estimated
thai only third of the quantity made here is de-
torsd to other places. great ceal OF that sold a.
PHILADELPHIA beer in other eli les Ia ade elssvhtre