The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-08-23
LETTER FROM EUROPE.



AT MUNICH-BAvARIAN BEER DRINKING-
THE ROYAL BREwERY-THE COURT YARD
THE TAP ROOM-A CASE IN POINT
THE INN KEEPERS COMMANDMENTS.
MUNICH, July 2Sth, 1872.
We are still enjoying our German life in
Munich as we did in Vienna, living as the
people live, and like it much better than
hotel life. We have, just at II o'clock p.
~, returned from supper, having taken it
in garden, where for nine kreutzers, adj
mission six cents we were enabled to lis
ten while eating to an excellent concert by
a band Of Tyrolese vocalists. Last night.
whilst taking tho same meal, we enjoyed a
concert in another garden by full mill
tary band, and this evening propose to visit
still another garden, all of which are with
in five minutes walk of our hotel, where
another of the great military bands of
Munich will be in attendance. At least
one thousand persons take their evening
meal at each of these gardens every even
ing, and there are dozens of them in all
sections of the city similarly attended,
The admission is mere trihe, merely suf-
ticient to pay for the music.
BAvARIAN BEER DRINKING.
We intend this letter to be about moth
ing but beer, Bavarian beer, and the man.
ner and mode in which it is drank by a
people who would as soon submit to be
deprived or circumscribed in the use of the
air they breathe as to be dictated to as the
amount of beer they shall consume. This
is a subject which is greatly misunderstood
in the United States, and we have there
fore paid more than ordinary attention to
it in all the parts of Germany in which we
have spont the past three months. AL
though not accustomed to drink either
malt or spirituous liquors at home, we
in Germany. We at home have the best
and most palatable drinking water in the
world. Here it is all limestone water, ex-
cessively hard and unpalatable, and to the
stranger unaccustomed to it, is calculated
to produce diseases of the bowels. Every
where the physicians say that it ought not
to be drank without either wine or sugar
in it. Hence we have drank beer and
drank it freely, and are free to admit that,
without having been accustomed to it from
our cradles, as the Germans are, if we were
to spend the balance of our lives in Ger
many we should continue to drink beer,
and drink it to the almost total exclusion
of the unpalatable and iceless drinking
water. Whether the beer in America is as
good and pure and healthy as it is here is
another question. Here it's quality is reg
uated by the Government breweries, or by
the high standard maintained by the Phil
sen breweries. An article under these
standards would meet with no sale, and
hence it is not made. The people, too, are
all good judges of good article, and the
slightest deterioration in quality would be
instantly detected.
THE ROYAL BREWERY.
We visited yesterday afternoon the Roy
al Brewery, an establishment managed for
several Numbered years back by the Gov
eminent, where mug of beer, containing
nearly three pints, or at least two pints
and ahalf, equal to five mugs of the size
sold in Baltimore, is furnished for eight
kreutzcrs, or about five and ahalf cents.
The Government retails beer here at very
little over the cost of manufacture, and
furnishes better article than can be had
from any of the private brewories about
Munich. Tho size of the mug and the
price is thus made universal by the Govern
ment, as any innovation OH the standard
as to price and quantity as furnished by