San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-21
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A Practical Brewer Upholds our san
Antonio Enterprises. A Plain Com
mon Sense Article.

A Practical Brewer Upholds our San
Antonio Enterprises. A Plain Com
mon Sense Article.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, July 20, lSSG.
To the San Antonio LIGHT.
A communication signed "a Friend
TO Home Industry" appeared in "Ihe
Evening Paper" few days ago, and
was reproduced in yesterdays Express
entitled "Our Beer" The argument
used by the writer Is not alone pertinent
but shows him to be an impairment lg-
noramus on subject OF which he knows
nothing whatsoever. He hides himself
i'm disguise as "A Friend OF Home INDUS
try" like "Rabelais' Pantagrue" De-
meath whose tongue an army can take
shelter from authorizations, by this Is I'M
derstood Lone Star Beer"
The writer's remarks, though they are
muchly serio comic and of a bragadociO
style, 1t smacks OF machiavellian cyni-
cism and in all probability, brought the
writer two fifty" for writingit.
What does he mean by alt does not
by far compete with foreign beers?
In admitting to be a stranger how dare
he come here and stultify an institution
of which he knows nothing by his own
admission. He gives "a warning % as
a lesson for the future" Now Mr.. #. o.
al. l." in your small school boy article,
you are guilty of prevarication and the
truth is not in you, besides, you meddle
with a subject as said before, OF which
you know nothing Of and the "whlsp-
cred complaints" are all mere bosh.
The Lone Star brewery's product,
Lone Star Lager Beer" notwlthstahu-
ing your slanderous and villifying note,
still holds its own, and judging from an
every day increasing correspondence,
which also brings q corresponding in
crease of business, the SANDER of Enemy
to home industry falls dead and still
born to where it justly belongs. If the
writer has practical experience in the
art OF brewing why does he not give
facts and figures; these would give an
interested public something TO 90 and
Judge by. The writer of this deiies him
or any one to prove the use OF any ObnOX-
iOus means in any manner except the
very best qualities of hops and barley;
only at times rice being used for special
brews.
From the records of the internal rev.
enue office it will and can be seen that
on July l, 1856, the Lone Star brewery
had on hand q stock amounting to
As, 347 kegs, and the monthly sales de-
Oucteu tDereIrOm Will SHOW Ill uNolaBe
age of the Lone Star beer to be three
months, when the average age of beer
sent here never comes up to that stand
ard.
Again, during the spring season stock
on hand is larger in all breweries than
at any other time during the year and
then gradually decreases to standard
of say, sixty days.
The enlargement and increased capac-
ity which now reaches TO G5,00O kegs of
cellar storage, was for short time
drawback to the regular delivery owing
TO the necessary and partial Interrupt
tions in the construction OF ad-
ditional buildings, for increasing
cellar capacity, setting up new
engines, made or created delays
and may be defects that were only the
imaginary idiosyncrasies of the natural
born mossback and fault-finders.
In conclusion will say to "a Friend to
Home Industry" that he can with the
least trouble find just hundreds of men
who will brand him a falsifier and meet
"a real practical brewer" by pen or
otherwise to settle his villanous attacks.
Practical BREWER.