Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
The Beer Trade I'm Germany-The Great
Rrewerles of ViennG and Munich.

The manufacture and consumption
of beer is rapidly increasing on the
continent, and it is supposed the large
consumption at the Paris Exhibition
will still further extend its use. The
finest temple ever dedicated to Klne
Gambrinus is in the Austrian part Of
the Exhibition park. 1t is very large
wooden building, of simple but admir-
able construction, with q light roo
showing the timbers, and broad gal
lery round the interior. 1t is wei
Lighted and ventilated, and those who
prefer the open air find plenty of &C
commodation under the spacious YER,
andas outside. The brewery to which
this establishment belongs is the larg
est in Austria, and indeed on the con
tinent.
THE VIENNA BREwERIEs.
The principal brewery in Austria is
at -Schwechat, near Vienna, and
was established in 1882; but its impor.
tanee dates only from 1886, when the
late proprietor, MIR. Anthony Dreher,
took possession of it.
Previous to this latter date the only
beer brewed there was ObeTgdhrig, q
highly fermented beer which would
not keep, but was consequently drunk
at an early age. Mr.. DreAer thorough.
Iy revolutionized the brewery, formed
immense stone cellars and introduced
the slowly fermented lager-beer, which
soon grew into immense popularity
During the first year of the reign OF
Mr.. Dreher, the quantity made at
Schwechat amounted to 330,937 gal
Ions.
In the year 1850 the brewery became
totally inadequate to the supply res
quired the premises were extended,
and machinery used instead of manual
labor. Soon after this Mr.. Dreher
purchased domain near Shaz, famous
for its growth of hops. He laid out
an extensive hop plantation, and also
built brewery there, according to the
modern system.
In 1862 he purchased the landed
property of Steinbruch, near Pesth,
and erected store brewery, answering
all the modern deman Is. He had ac-
cordingly three large breweries.
The Schwechat brewery is the largest
on the continent. Including malt floors,
it occupies an area of twenty-one and
one third acres. Fourteen and a quar-
ter acres are covered with vaults. The
daily consumption of malt, made in
the winter, is /, 800 bushels, requiring
floors of six and one-third acres of
area, and storeroom for IS, 900 bush
els of raw barley, and magazines for
storing 60, 900 bushels of malt. Ma
chinery is employed to convey the dry
malt to the bruisers or crackers, and
thence to the boiling house, in which
latter are six copper pans, the largest
holding $3.50 gallons.
During the working months the make
amounts to AT ,34S gallons of beer daily.
The fermenting rooms hold i, 246 watts,
holding 654, 773 gallons.
To the subterranean cellars, which
together occupy an area of three and
three quarter acres, there are 4, 317 bar
rels or tuns, holding from 500 to $500
gallons each, or 5,160,869 gallons of
beer in all.
At the side of the cellars, and in i'm
mediate connection with them, there
are ice pits of more than two acres area,
in which 10000 tons of ice can be
slowed away.
In the works are employed three fixed
and one portable steam engine, and
one hydraulic engine; together eighty
| horsepower.
They employ $50 brewers and brew
ers' assistants, and $50 draymen and
laborers. Rails run through the whole
establish. nent, and are connected with
the railroad. The stables contain Y
horses and 240 dray-oxen.
| Al IL 1000 40 "a
January, 1867, $3.50, 14S gallons were
produced, yielding revenue TO the
government from this single brewery Of
nearly $488, 600.
In the Saaz brewery, built by Mr.
Dreher according to the new system ID
the year 1861, the working is not con
fined to the winter months, but con
tinues the whole year round; only the
summer months are devoted to the
brewing of tapping beer (Schank-beer)
beer peculiar to Bohemia, while the
winter months are devoted to brewing
lager beer.
To effect the summer brewing with
ont injury to the quality of the beer
very effective cooling apparatus is EN-
ployed. The fermenting cellars are sc
abundantly supplied with ice that the
temperature in them does not exceed
forty three to fifty degrees of Fahren
heit, even in the hottest summer months
aud in the store cellars the temperature
is constantly kept to about thirty-siz
degrees Fahrenheit. The prize fol
beer at the Paris Exhibition was gained
by the Schwechat brewery.
The three breweries named yield 6
yearly income to government of 1928,
500.
THE MUNICH BREwERIEs.
These statistics of the Great Austrian
breweries cannot be matched on the
Continents; but Munich is better know
as brewing region than Vienna. The
breweries of Munich are freely thrown
open to young brewers. and thirty
years since DIR. Kaiser, chronological
professor in the University of Munich,
established a course of scientific lee
lures on the subject, which have been
attended by more than a thousand
young men. One of the famous Ba'
varian 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 brew
cries has diminished; machinery has to
a great extent taken the place of hand
labor, and this has led to the formation
of very extensive establishments.
THE KING OF BAVARIA BREWER.
In Munich there are sixteen brew