Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-24
1.-TWO BEERS, PLEAsE."
Cold Facts From Learned Bar Tender
About Favorite Beverage.


"what is there in this world 30 refreshing as
glass Of ice cold beer when one is hot and
tired!' said the perspiring stranger at the bar,
just after tossing down foaming beaker of the
amber-colored fluid. 81 never drank the stuff
more frigid than you serve it here; I suppose
1t must be close TO freezing point-say, 50 de-
grees Fahrenheit"
''t is not possible 70 serve beer on draught
below SO degrees" replied the bar tender.
"That is the temperature at which we have it
always, or not to exceed 40, and our beer is the
coolest in the city. ''See," and taking a little
spirit thermometer, he held il suspended for
some moments in glass newly filed, until il
registered Al. cit has gone up two degrees
while standing" he added.
You must have your kegs fairly packed in
Ice, TO keep 1t so cold as that" remarked q
Star reporter who was standing by with q
vlrtuous Lemonade.
The bar tender shook his head. THAT was
the old fashion" he said, though in most ga
looms 1t is still kept up. 1t requires the use Of
great ice boxes in which the kegs to be drawn
from are put, and the result 10 that the beer
is sometimes cold and sometimes warm. but
never at an even temperature for twenty min
utes together. We employ q method that is
comparatively scientific. the cooling being
done by coils of block-tin pipe hundreds OF
feet in length through which the beer passes.
III you will come behind here fsre moment
will show you how it works more clearly
than 1t can be explained in wOrds."
COILS OF BEEn.
Behind the bar the newspaper man saw sim
ply trough six feet long by four feet deep
filled up seemingly with great hunk Of ice Gu,
to lit it. Beneath this ice, he was informed.
were the tan pipes closely coiled in spirals.
Cold, Of course, descend, and so
the beer, as II came up from the kegs in the
celler beneath, after flowing through the pipes
under the ice for distance Of two hundred or
more feet, was drawn at the tap in a condition
Of extreme frigidity. Block tin was used for
the material of the pipes in order that no
metallic poison should be conveyed into the
beverage.
KEGS on TAP.
"Down cellar" explained the bar tender,
''there is an automatic pump that forces COM
pressed air into the kegs, driving the beer up
through the pipes at pressure that can be
regulated by gauge behind the bar. There
are three kegs on tap all the time, and as fast
as one il emptied another is attached to the
drawing and pump apparatus. Perhaps
should not have said that il was altogether
impossible to draw beer at temperature be.
low 80 degrees. 1t can be done, though no,
conveniently as . regular practice, by smash.
sprinkling salt amoug it. BY that process
have drawn beer that was half ice, like cham
payne frappe. Many persona think, however
that beer at freezing point loses portion o.
its flavor"
II don't believe that beer is injurious 70 the
health" broke in the perspiring stranger
Notwithstanding what the temperance cranks
say about its producing govt and kidney
disease"
1T seems to me that is nonsense" said the
bar tendar. There are no more healthy mer
in the world than are found in the breweries
and they all drink beer enormously while al
their work, which requires great physical ex
ertion.
HUNDRED GLASSES ApAY.
There was q strike in great beer establish
ment in st. Louis, three years ago, because the
mems allowance was cut down to 100 gIasse,
apiece per day. They declared that they
needed more than that quantity to sup
port their strength, laboring as they were
obliged to do for much of the time in an
atmosphere Artifcially refrigerated with am
monia, conducted through pipes en-
is long bar in the brewery, where three ban
keepers are busily employed all day long il
drawing beer for the hands, who pay for il with
tickets, each Of which is good for q glass. The
| tickets are distributed each day by the foreman
when work begins, 80 many to every man. Al
torily shown that beer encouraged them; il is a
notion some doctors have while others disagree
Beer acts as stmulant upon the kidneys and
Is an admirable diuretic. II govt is caused
by beer why are not the Germans {
equity nation? One Of the most important
organs Of the body, the skin, is most benef
| cially acted upon by beer, which increases the
Precipitation and keeps the cuticle WASHED
through open pores. Though reduced to the
necessity Of tending bar, am a graduate o.
Heidelberg university, and the subject Of which
We have been speaking used often to be dis
cussed among the students when / was there
There is one good effect beer has that have
not spoken o.. There is nothing that rests the
brain 30 delightfully."-, after the strain of long
continued mental exertion, e. glass or two
Of it,"
81 observe" said The STAR reporter, ''that a
distinguished chemist has recently published
the result Of q careful series of analyses oil
different kinds of beer. He finds that % pc,
cent Of 1t lis water the remaining per cent being
simply 'rottenness,' derived from the fermen.
tation Of certain vegetable substances. Fer.
mentation, he declares, means rotting, and
| therefore, beer il mot ft for Christian &C
drink"
'Why does not the gentleman add that bread
IL unfit for Christian to eat, for the same
reason?" asked the learned bar tender, dryly.
A BANK UNDERMINED.