The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-30
IAE WHEELING MONDAY 1877

BuCKBEER AND LIMDURd CHEEsE,--
Editor Of l1islRgineT' The following re.
marks on the above subjects are, in part,
feaapnablc now: 81 ''
Buckbeer, in German Boekbisr, ia
misnomer Of the beer most valued by the
Germans Of this country and on the other
side Of the Atlantic ocean. The German
word Boek, in this connection, means he
goat. Bnt the he goat Is not, a. one
might think, the emblem Of German ma,
tiOnal strength, similar TO the American
eagle, or 10 the British lion, the German
symbol being also an eagle. Nor had q
lie goat any thlng to do with the invention
Of buckbeer, Nothing Of the goat Is used
by the German brewers for manuiac-
turing buckbeer, and the idea that o
man tipsy from buck beer feels a. II he
was thrust by q he goat, and that this was
the cause Of tho name OF the beverage,
Is also erroneous. On account OF la
Btrength--thrusting powCr-Baid bever-
age might be called bull beer instead Of
buck beer. Buck beer has received it,
name from the town OF Einbeck, in Ger.
many. There they breWed in former
years an excellent lager beer, which was
famous in Hdlcridnd and named after
that town. BY the way Of abbreyiation
that kind Of beer was attetward called
BeekJier and still later Botkbier, In
Germany, because the syllable Beck had
no meaning Of its own. This Is the orr.
gin of the German word ROclbiA. In
English buekbter, which beverage has
nothing whatever to do with the he goat,
Buckbecr is tho very best and strongest
lager beer. II lis he lager beer, containing,
II it ia genuine, twice as much barley
extract and good deal more hop extract
than the regular lager beer does. Lager
beer, as is we'll known, Is manufactured Of
barley, hops and water. IfboCk beer ia he
lager beer, why docs it not supetcede the
common lager beer in this free and pro.
gressive country Because:
/. 1t would, on account Of it's expen.
siveness, prevent the German brewers in
this country from becoming nabobs.
.. 1t would cause too much Drunkenness
among the German.Americans, who are
by nature sober people.
8. 1t would produce huge and mon.
strous swag bellies among the German
beer guzzlers Of the United States. The
science Of chemistry has established the
fact that lager beer produces in the hu-
man body exclusively fat and no tibrous
matter, called flesh, whatsoever. b
For the above reasons the season Of
book beer annually lasts only a couple Of
weeks in this country.
Limburg cheese, in German Limbur.
ger Kaese, Is named Limburg in the
Netherlands, where it was first made or
is most extensively manufactured. 1t
has no particular season, but is occasion.
ally eaten by Germans, chiefly when they
drink beer, at all seasons Of the year,
Said cheese, on account OF the Internal
smell it emits, is OF course the most I'm.
fashionable Of all dishes. Limbure
cheese, like other cheese, is made, in the
main, Of milk, But sheepguts, properly
cleaned and chopped fine, are mixed with
the milk that is used for the manuiac.
ture Of Limbutg cheese. Those CUTS
decaying in said cheese, cause its olen.
sive smell. Old Limburg cheese is not
hard, but mellow. Its lovers do not
mind its flavor. Limburg cheese is, to a
certain extent, manufactured in the
State Of New York.
Very respectfully yours,
A GERMAN AMERICAN.
Welding, april 30, 1877.