The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-05
CINCINNATI LAGER BEER.
Weber's Beer and the Temper.
ance Fanatics.
A Word Of Consolation tc the Beer
Drinking Public.

A communication OF considerable length ap-
peared IN the Cincinnati papers last sunday
under the title of " w eber's Beer versus Adul-
terated Beer" which has very justly Gre
| aUed considerable excitement in German
| circles, and, we may add, has excited
righteous indignation. The main substance
of the communication consists Of the substance
of an article published in the Mucker and Tenn
perance organ Of this city, the Cincinnati "a
zette, in which the general accusation is made
that the Cincinnati beer brewers use no malt
or hops in the manufacture of their beer, or, if
any, only in very small quantities; while on
the other hand, they employ dangerous chem
ical preparations, AUDI as it were, pol
sonous ingredients, such as nux vomica
and cocculus indicus. That great
brewery should take the pains to lend itself to
the task of giving the greatest possible pub
| licity to an article calling in question the
quality of Cincinnati beer in way affecting
the honorof the manufacturers is, to say the
least, exceedingly singular: indeed, It'll s all
| the more strange seeing that the publication
of such an article can manlfessly only serve to
| play into the hands Of the Temperance
fanatics. The Temperance and Mucker
actively at work in this 'city
| at present The Murphy apostles are moving
theaven and earth to prevail upon all mon to
| drink nothing butwater (brrrr?), and the Sun
| day MuCkersa are doing their utmost TO inter-
| fere with the Germans in thtir beer drinking.
| An article like that communication mentioned
| above serves the Temperance fanatics n good
purpose. Indeed, they use 1t as strong argu-
ment-and, were it true, it would be logical
| argument-to injure beer In the estimation OF
| the beer drinker, and 80 work to the advantage
l hat No. nnRl hnN @
| then, that the Germans are aroused and
Indignant when a German brewery acIs
in this manner, and Thereby, in cer-
tain w"y, gives >, oonntenance' and sup
| port to the Temperance movement.
Yet this is not all. The communication con-
| tanned remarks on the Gazette article, and they
were courhcd IN such1anguage as to lead every
| bipartisan person to believG--supposmg the
| remarks were true--that NOWHERE except in
| Weber's brewery was pure and anadulterated
beer breWed. Indeed, the remarks in that ar
| ticle broadly insInuate that in every other
| Cincinnati brewery except Webcr's the manu-
facture or beer was not carried on honestly,
and they excite the suspicpn tnat every other
brewery . uses chemical preparations,
and, Of course, the poisonous ingredients above
named in making their beer. The boastful
and we might almost say auctioneer-l ike, chal-
lenge makes the case still worse. and thereby
publicly throws down the gauntlet, as 1t were
to all the beer brewers in Cincinnati. 1t mas
the look Of manifest attempt to bring all the
peer DfeWeTleS IN SlnCtundLi lnto ulsIepute
therefore, we feel called upon, in order. to de.
fend the manufacture OF beer IN Cincinnati
from this fierce attack upon Its honesty, tC
make q declaration that no dangerous or pols-
onous substances, preparations or lngredlents
are employed by us in the manufacture OF beer
but thai on the contrary, we brew our heel
from barley. hops and malt
Cincinnati beer has hitherto enjoyed un.ver.
sally high reputation, and has held the high
| eat rank in the market We hope that the
| charges made by the Gazette, and afterwarC
repeated and published, we are sorry to say
by Il German brewery, Will not have the eHec
| to njure the well learned good reputation o
Cincinnati beer. At all events, it would CONF
from Mr.. Weber-Or, as the communicates
states, from the managers OF his breWcry-Wltl
a bad grace to excite such suspicious agains
Cincinnati beer, or give them undue clrcula
ton when others,publIsh them.
| We hold it to be our duty, IN view OF this ut
I terly nexcusable and unjust provocation IL
the Weber communication aforesaid, to maxi
this declaration: and we trust that we haV'
succeeded In restoring confidence to the beer
drinking public, and contributed to rescue the
reputation OF Cincinnati beer from I'M Jury,
| GAMBRINUs STOCK COMPANY,
NIEHAUs & KLINCKHAMER,
CHRISTIAN MOERLEIN,
II j. q. ooHN Il Co.,
JOHN KAUFMAN.
HAUCK u WINDSOR.
G. WINDIsCH, MUHLHAUsER & BRO,
SCHALLER II GERKE.
CINCINNATI, June 4, 1877.
; in Cincinnati would appear TO the above arti
Gle but for the fact that large number OF ther
} are absent attending the Beer Congress now il
| session in Milwaukee,