Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-01
BEER IN BAVARIA.
The Vast Quantities Consumed In the
City OF Munich.


New York sun.
In report on the history and pres.
ent condition of the beer business In
Bavaria Consul Hlrtsman saws
There are in Bavaria about $3.50 brew.
cries, using In the aggregate IA So. 500
bushels OF malt, which are converted
into about 500, 900 barrels Of beer.
OF these hreweries, 505S are
owned by private persons, nineteen
are Joint stock companies, S5I he
ong 10 communities, and tiftv-oue sell
all their beerto the consumers on the
premises; All breweties are worked hy
steam power 85i by animal power and
the rest partly by water power ad by
hand
The largest breweries are in the
capital; the principal one of these
(Brauerie yum Spaten) used in 1881
81, 400 bushels of malt; next in rank
are four establishments using from 40
900 to $4,000 bushels each.
OF the remaining 5475 brew
cries in Bavaria, only 100
use more than IL 900 bushels annually.
aud of these last eleven are in Munich.
There are, further, ll06 breweries, con.
Stunning from $500 To II 900 bushels of
malt, and 423D breweries using less
than $500 bushels each.
Most OF the beer produced in Bava-
ria is consumed in the country itself,
only about : per cent of the whole pro.
due ion being exported. Tue princi-
pal cities ticking part in this export
which is chiefly 10 North Germany,
France aud the United States-ara
Munich, Kulmbach, Nuremberg and
Erangen."
The CONSUL supplies tabular state
ment of the quantities of beer con
sumed annually per capita in various
countries and says:
ut will thus be seen that Bavaria
takes the lead Of all natl Ons in its con-
sumption of beer. 1t is quite natural
that the chief characteristics of ma.
ton should eliminate at it, capital,
and Munich out-beers all Bavaria, the
annual consumption there reaching
the enormous figure of iT0 quarts 10
each person, about 10 quarts daily,
whereas, IN the United States only
about one-tenth of quart is the daily
requirement per person, thus showing
that the Munich man drinks thirteen
times as much beer as one of our cltl-
2ens.
"In order 70 understand this great
consumption of beer IN Bavaria il mus {
/ be explained that the people begin
drinking it from the cradle up. IL is
| looked upon not as IA stimulant or q
mere dtlicacy, but "a "A necessary
article of nourishment for the body.
at is ,ften styled the liquid bread
Of the laborer, who generally takes
beer for breakfast. Beer Is drunk all
the year round and at every hour OF
the day and night.
1T would invuluntarily lead me into
a humorous article, but little suited fol
the stale pages of a consular report
were / to give illustrations of the en-
paclty of the Bavariuns for slowing
away of their national beverage, A
| few figures will here suffice. Although
as have said, the very babe
begin drinking beer almost a
soon as they do milk, We
the quantities consumed by them arr
comparatively small; then, again, /
we count half the whole population as
females, who, Of course, are moderate
according TO their ideas in the use o
beer, suppose IL would leave show
ing of about two aud half or three
quarts to each male over the age of II
Years. Now, three quarts In the COURSE
of twenty foar hours is small amount
to true Btvarian. II give the fig
ures of the capacity of an ordinary
drinker, and of an accompl s1ed
drhker on festive occ ,sions they
would appear start ing venture tosal
there are thousands OF men who drlnl
their eight quarts regularly every day
of their lives, and many who drlnl
even more. One man told me he hat
been drinking seventeen qu ITls dali!
for many years. Another man wa
known to drink six litres six and one
half quarts every evening, beside
what he had taken through the day.
am almost afraid to write how man.
quarts a full iledged student, when pu
; upon his mettle, can pack away, but
is nevertheless an established fact tina
: a student can drink and does drink
: times ten to twelve quarts at 81
ting. In order to get some idea
i this quantity. suppose II were put int
our ordinary five-cent glasses, filled :
: they usually are for II must be remen
> bered our glasses are One-half foau
e we would have row of about sixt
u qlaes es waiting to lie emptied
D ar gently AT an evening festival
one of the Munich breweries, whie
= was attended by about 500 person.
y twentv-nine hectoiitres of beer pa.se
! their lips i'm five or six hours IN
averages about quarts to each pa
/, ticIpaut
but he percentage of alcohol
= Bavarian beer is less than In an