Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-11
'raE BEER TRADE IN GERmANx.
s he Great Rrewerfes at Vienna and
ur rrvl munich. -Li-

THE BEER TRADE In GERMANY.
/ he Great Brewertes at Vienna and
F: vr- rrwl MunIch. -lA
The manufacture and consumption of
',er is rapidly increasing on the Continent
I'D it is supposed the large consumption
= : the Paris Exposition will still further
xtend its use. The finest temple ever ded-
pated TO King Gamhrinus is in the Aus
sian part of the Exhibition park. 1t is a
cry large wooden building, of simple but
imirable construction, with large root,
moving the timbers. and broad gallery
ound the interior. 1t is well lighted and
entilated, and those who prefer the open
.ir find plenty of accommodation under
he spacious verandas. The brewery to
s'hich this establishment belongs is the
trgest in Austria and indeed on the Con-
',nent. G
. THE VIENNA BREwERIES. ..
The principal brewery In Austria is at
slein-Schwechat, near Vienna, and was es-
.t6lished in 1882; but Its importance dates
MY from 1886. when the late proprietor,
Ir. Anthony Dreher, took possession of it.
Previous TO this latter date the only beer
rewed there was Obergdhrig, a highly fer
rented beer, which would not keep, but
'as consequently drunk at all early age.
ir. Dreher thoroughly revolutionized the
rewery, formed immense store-cellars,
ind introduced the slowly fermented lager
eer, which soon grew into enormous pop
larity. During the first year of the reign
Mr.. Dreher the quantity made at
ehwechat amounted to $780, 937 gallons.
In the year 1850 the brewery became to-
ally inadequate to the supply required; the
Nremises were extended, and machinery
Introduced instead of manual labor. Soon
'fter this Mr.. Dreher purchased domain
ear Saaz, famous for its growth of hops.
lie laid out an extensive hop plantation.
& tnd also built brewery there, according
} the modern system.
In 1852 he purchased the landed proper.
Steinruch, near Pesth, and erected
.tore-brewery, answering all the modern
'emands. He had accordingly three large
,Ireweries. IJ. Ll iJg~ -
The Schwechat brewery is the largest on
he continent. Including malt floors, it
couples an area of twenty-one and one
1lrd acres. Fourteen and a quarter acres
re covered with vaults. The daily con-
imption of malt, made in the winter, is
800 bushels, reqniring floors of six and
me third acres OF area, and storeroom for
5000 bushels of raw barley. and maya
zines for storing 60,000 bushels of malt.
Machinery is employed to convey the dry
l'ialt to the bruisers or crackers, and thence
, the boiling-hOuse, in which latter are
TX copper pans, the largest holding 6,230
sallons. f
. During the working months the make
lmounts-to 4734S gallons of beer daily.
The fermenting rooms hold l,264 watts,
solding 654.773 gallons. A
In the subterranean cellars, which to-
either occupy an area of three and three
quarter acres, there are 4,3l7 barrels or
.luns, holding from 500 to $500 gallons
ach. or 5,l60,S69 gallons of beer in all.
AT the side of the cellars, and in imme-
late connection With them, there are ice
n han f,rrr. bs sol,
10000 tons of ice can be slowed away.
u In the works are employed three fixed
nd one portable steam engine, and one
hydraulic engine; together eighty horse
power. e.
J They employ $50 brewers and brewers
assistants, and $50 draymen and laborers.
Rails run through the whole establish
'nent, and are connected with the railroad
The stables contain u horses and 24O dray-
pxen.a
. From the 1st of January, 1866. to the 1st
OF January, 1867, 59S9, 11S gallons were
produced. yielding revenue to the gov
i'rnment from the single brewery of near
ly SASS 600.
Iuthe Suez brewery, built by Mr.. Dreher
recording to the new system in the year
1861, the working is not confined to the
winter months, but continues the whole
year round, only the summer months are
devoted to the brewing of tapping beer
lSchank-beer), a beer peculiar to Bohemia.
while the winter months are devoted to
brewing lager-beer. zrsr
To effect the summer brewing without
injury to the quality of the beer, very eff
tectlve cooling apparatus is employed
The fermenting cellars are so abundantly,
supplied with ice that the temperature in
them does not exceed forty-three to fifty
degrees of Fahrenheit, even in the hottest
GUNNER months, and in the store cellars the
Temperature is constantly kept to about
thirty-six degrees Fahrenheit. The prize
for beer at the Paris Exhibition was gain
ed by the Schwechat brewery.
: The three breweries named yield year
ly income to Government of $62S,S55.
THE MUNICH BREwERIEs. G
These statistics of the great Austrian
breweries cannot be matched on the Conti-
alent; but Munich is better known as
brewing region than Vienna. The brew
cries of Munich are freely thrown open to
Young brewers. and thirty years since, DR..
Kaiser, chronological professor in the Uni
yersity of Munich, established a course of
cientiffc lectures on the subject, which
rave been attended by more than a thou
'and young men. One of the famous Ba-
garian breweries in Munich has given
practical instruction to more than three
hundred of these pupils.
The production OF beer has been doubled
In Bavaria in thirty years, and at the same.
time the number of breweries has dimin-
ished machinery has to great extent re-
placed hand labor, and this has led to the
formation of very extensive establish
ments.
THE KING OF BAVARIA A BREWER.
In Munich there are sixteen breweries
In operation. two of which are worked for
account of the King of Bavaria, thirteen
rNrixy ;,,l; oI,
monastery. Nuremburg has twenty-four,
and Augsburg seventy-one. In point of
quantity of beer Munich outstrips all her
competitors.
BEER AND WINE.
While the manufacture and consump-
tion of beer is rapidly increasing, wine is
as quickly decreasing. Twenty years ago
there were in Lower Austria $4,000 vochs
or 10000 acres of vineyards under cultiva-
tiOn. which produced annually 100000
eimers, or 30.000,000 gallons of wine
There are now only $4,000 yochs of vine
yards producing 1,046, 600 eimers or 16,-
100000 gallons.
During the same time the manufacture
of beer has increased from 1.400.000 eimers,
or 2l.000O00 gallons, to 100000 eimers, or
43,000000 gallons, being more than double
This last quantity was brewed in 1865; and
by the former years rate of growth, it NAV
safely be calculated that the consumption
now amounts to fifty-two millions of gal
Ions.
/, There are at present ia breweries at work,
employing 1.500 workmen, and have thirty
steam engines of $50 horsepower. Each
workman produces 1000 einers, or 10000
gallons of beer yearly. The workmen's
wages are to l q forms per day $50 to rs
cents) with board and lodging.
Death of am Old and Noted Lady.
Mrs. Lydia Crugar, aged one hundred
and two years, died at her residence, about
five miles from Wheeling, on Sunday last.