The Osceola times., 1884-09-27
BEER DRINKING IN BAVARIA.
startling Figures showing the Capacity oil
an Able-Isodied Bavarian.

startling Figures showing the Capacity "f
an Able Bodied Hawaiian.
In a report on the history and present
condition of the beer business in Bavaria
Consul Hortsman says: There are In
Bavaria about $3.50 breweries, using In
the aggregate l4,S02, 500 bushels of malt,
which are converted into about $4,000
barrels OF beer. OF these breweries 5,O5s
are owned by private persons, ~ are
Joint stock companies, 357 belong to
communities, and 81 sell all their beer
to the consumer on the premises I'll
breweries are worked by steam power.
254 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 (Braueru
zum spaten) used, in 1881, S72,4OO BUSH
els OF malt; next in rank are four estab-
lishments using from 10000 to 252,OOO
bushels each. OF the remaining 5,475
breweries in Bavaria only 1870 use more
than l4,OOO bushels annually, and Of
these last eleven are in Munich. There
are, further, l,l06 breweries consuming
from $500 to 14,OO0 bushels OF malt, and
A229 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 tabular state
ment of the quantities of beer consumed
annually percapita in various countries
and says:
at 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 enormou:
figure of 470 quarts to each person, ol
ABOUT l-S quarts daily, whereas in the
United States only about one-tenth OF {
quart is the daily requirement per per
son, thus showing that the Munich maj
drinks thirteen times as much beer a
one of our citizens.
"In order to understand this grea
consumption of beer in Bavaria, it mus
be explained that the people begil
drinking it from the cradle up. 1t i
looked upon not as a stimulant or mer
delcacy, but as necessary article o
nourshment for the body.
at 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 an
night. ,
"It would involuntarily lead me into
humorous article, but little suited for tn
staid pages of consular report, were
TO give illustrations of the capacity c
the Bavarians for the slowing away c
their natural beverage. A few figure
will here suffice. Although, as | hav
said, the very babes begin drinking bee
almost as soon as they do milk, yet tn
| quantities consumed by them are con
paratively snail; then, again, II we coun
! half the whole population as females
J who, of course, are moderate taccordln
, 10 their ideasl in the use OF beer, l SUI
, pose it would leave showing OF abou
, two and half or three quarts to eac
, male over the age of sixteen years. NOV
three quarts in the course OF twenty-fou
hours is small amount to true Bavs
= rian. If gave the figures of the capacl
ty of an ordinary drinker, and OF an al
| complished drinker on festive occasion
they would appear startling. ! ventur
to saw there are thousands of men VIII
2 drink their eight quarts regularly ever
z day of their lives, and many who drin
: even more. One man told me he ha
r been drinking II quarts daily for man
} years Another man was known
} drink litres (63 quarts every evening
A.. besides what he had taken through tn
} day. | am almost afraid to write ho'
) many quarts full-hedged student, whe
| put upon his mettle, can pa TX away, bu
I it is nevertheless an established fact ths
r a student can drink and does drink
times 10 to l2 quarts at sitting. In OF
der to get some idea of this quantlt!
suppose it were put into our ordinar
five. cent glasses. filled as they USUAL
aie (for it is must be remembered ou
glasses are one-half foam, we woul
. have a row of about 60 glasses waiting
: be emptied.
/ Recently at an evening festival at on
5 Of the Munich breweries, which was a
Q tended by about 800 persons, twenty
! nine hectoitres of beer passed their lI
, in five or six hours. This average
1 about 3.6 quarts to each participant.
9 But the percentage of alcohol in b
4 yarian beer is less than in any oth(
7 beer"
TELEGRAPHING THE EXACT TINE.