Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
BEER DRINKING IN BAVARIA.
startling Figures showing the Capacity Of
an Able-Bodied Bavarian.

Startling Figures showing the Capacity Of
an AbIe-Bodied Bavarian.
In report on the history and present
condition of the beer business in Bavaria
Consul Horsman says: "There are in
Bavaria about {, ,4S0 breweries, using in
the aggregate 4,S02 800 bushels of malt,
which are converted into about $4,000
barrels of beer. OF these breweries 5,053
are owned by private persons, 10 are
joint stock companies, 357 belong to
communities, and 81 sell all their beer
to the consumer on the premises; All
breweries are worked by steam power.
S54 by animal power, and the rest partly
by water power and by hand.
The largest breweries are in the cap
ital; the principal one of these (Brauerti
zum Spaten) used, in 1881, 372, 400 BUSH
els of malt; next in rank are four estab-
lishments using from 100000 to 252,OOO
bushels each. OF the remaining 5,475
breweries in Bavaria only 130 use more
than 1900 bushels annually, and of
these last eleven are in Munich. There
are, further, 1,l06 breweries consuming
from 2,SGO to 14,OOO bushels OF malt, and
A239 breweries using less than $500
bushels each.
Most of the beer produced in Bavaria
is consumed in the country itself, only
about per cent. of the whole production
being exported. The principal cities
taking part in this export-which is
chiefly to North Germany, France, and
the United States-are Munich, Kuhn
bach, Nuremberg, and Erlangen."
The Consul supplies a tabular state
ment of the quantities of beer consumed
annually percapita in various countries,
and says:
1T will thus be seen that Bavaria
takes the lead of al! nations in Its con-
sumption of beer. 1t is quite natural
that The chief characteristics of nation
should eliminate at its capital, and Mu-
mich out-beers Bavaria, the annual con-
sumption there reaching the enormous
figure of 470 quarts to each person, or
aoout 1-3 quarts daily, whereas in the
United States only about one-tenth OF a
quart is the daily requirement per per-
son, thus showing that the Munich man
drinks thirteen times as much beer as
one of our citizens.
"In order to understand this great
consumption of beer in Bavaria, it must
be explained that the people begin
drinking it from the cradle up. 1t is
looked upon not as stimulant or mere
delicacy, but as necessary article o.
nourishment for the body.
1T is often styled the liquid bread o
the laborer, who generally takes bee
for breakfast. Beer is drunk all the yea
round and at every hour of the day anC
night.
humorous article, but little suited for the
staid pages of a consular report, were
to give illustrations of the capacity o
the Bayarians for the slowing away o
their natural beverage. A few hgure:
will here suffice. Although, as L have
said. the very babes begin drinking bee
almost as soon as they do milk, yet th'
quantities consumed by them are com
paratiyely small; then, again, II we coun
half the whole population as females
who. of course, are moderate Caccordins
10 their ideas) in the use of beer, L sup
nose it would leave showing of abou
two and half or three quarts TO taci
male over the age of sixteen years. Now
three quarts i'll the course OF tWenty-loul
hours is a small amount to true Bava
rian. i'll gave the figures OF the capaci
ty of an ordinary drinker, and OF au ac
complished drinker on festive occasion:
thew would appear startling. L venture
to saw there are thousands OF men VINO
drink their eight quarts regularly every
: day of their lives, and many who drlni
even more. One man told me he ha,
been drinking IL quarts daily for many
wears. Another man was known u
drink 6 litres (63 quaris) every evening
besides what he had taken through tho
dav am almost afraid to write how
many quarts a iu!l-hedged st dent, wher
put upon his mettle, can pa;k away. 0u
Il is nevertheless an established fact tha
student can drink and does drink Il
times 10 to II quarts at sitting. In or
der to get some idea OF tnls quantity
suppose it were put into our ordlnar.
FIVE cent glasses, filled As they USUAL,
a,e (for it is must be remembered ou
glasses are one-half foam), we woul'
, have row of about 80 glasses waiting t.
be emptied.
: Recently al an evening festival at OIL
: Of the Munich brewerles, which was at
tended by about 500 persons, twenty
nine hectolitres of beer passed their lip
. i'm five or six nOurs. This average
, about 3.6 quarts to each participant.
But the percentage of alcohol in Ba
varian beer is less than in any othe
beer"
pIPTy WEARS AGO