The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-19
Buck-Beer.

WHEELING, W. Va, May 3.-The follow
ing remarks on the above subject are, in
part, scasonable now: Buck-beer, in German
Bookseller, is a misnomer of the beer most val
ued by the Germans in this country and on
the other side of the Atlantic ocean. The
German word Book, in this connection, means
hegoat. But the he.goat is not, as one
might think, the emblem of German national
strength, similar to the American eagle, or to
the British llon,-the German symbol being
also an eagle. Nor had a he-goat anything
to DO with the invention of buck-beer. Moth
ing of the goat is used by the German brew
ers for manufacturing buck beer; and the idea
that q man tipsy from buck-beer feels as if
he was thrust by a he-goat, and that this was
the cause of the name OF the beverage, is also
erroneous. On account of its strength
thrustlng power,-said beverage might be
called bull.beer instead of buck-beer. Buck
beer has received its name from the Town of
Einbeck, in Germany. There they brewed in
former years an excellent lager-beer, which
was famous in Naterand and named after
that town. BY TIE way Of abbrevlati0n that
kind OF beer was atterUard called Bech.6tef,
and still later Bocl-jisr, in Germany, because
the syllable Beci had no meaning of its own.
This is the origin of the German word Book.
bier, in English Bprt5acr, which beverage
has nothing whatever to do with the hegoat.
Buck-becr IS the ve,l hest and strongest lager
beer 1t is tic iHI't hter, containing, II 1t Is
genuine. twice IA much barley. extract and a
good deal more /! -, ytract than the regular
llrger.beer does iager.beer, as is well
known, il manui 'lred Of barley, hops, and
water. II buck '.'r is tie lager.beer, why
does it not supc &c the common lager.ocer
II this free ara aggressive country: BE.
cause:
!. 1t would, q, .ccount of It's expensive.
ness, prevent Ia ,rrnan brewers in this
country from becr..a!ng nabobs.
.. Il would causo too much drunkenness
among the COMMUNICATIONS, who are by
nature sober people.
3. II would produce huge and monstrOus
swag.bellcs among the German beer guZzlers
of the United States. The science OF chemis-
try has established the fact that lager-beer
produces in the human body exclusively Fat,
and no fibrouS matter, called flesh, whatso.
ever.
For the above reasons the season Of buck.
beer annually lasts only couple OF weeAs In
this country.
Limburg cheese-in German, Limburger
kaese-is named after Limburg, In the Meth,
erlands, where il was first made or is most
extensively manufactured. Ii has no partic-
ular season, but is occasionally eaten By Ger.
mans, chiefly when they drink beer, at all
seasons of the year. Said cheese on account
OF the internal smell il emits, is of course the
most questionable of all dishes. Limburg
cheese, like other cheese, is made, in the main
of milk. But sheep CUTS, properly cleaned
and chopped fine, are mixed with the milk
tina. is used for the manufacture Of LlmOurg
cheese. Those CUTS, decaying in said cheese
cause It's offensive smell Old Limburg cheese
IS not hard, but mellow. lis lovers DO moi
mind lis flavor. Limburg cheese is, to GER
tain extent, manufactured IN the State of New
York. Very respectfully yours,
4 GERMAN-AMERICAN