Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01

| ly ordered that the brewery should be placed
near the courts of justice, in order that the
brewer might have the fear of the law even
before his eyes, and be speedily brought to
punishment in case he should be tempted to
adulterate and deteriorate the brewage.
A MISTAKEN IDEA.
The popular notion, still prevailing in
Munich, that the Bavar1an soyereigns be-
gan the fabrication of beer for the purpose
of providing their dear subjects with a
cheap, palatable and wholesome beverage,
and that the same subjects should be eter-
nally grateful for their paternal kindness
and foresight, has no foundation in fact. 1t
was with an eye single to his own stomach
that Duke Wilhelm established the brew
cry, and the beer was at first reserved for the
exclusive use of the court 1t never oe-
Cured to the dukes and princes of that day
to do anything expressly for the pleasure or
welfare of the people. If they laid out
parks and gardens, it was for their own per-
sonal qualification. and whatever advantages
the public derived from them were wholly
incidental, and amounted in the be-
ginning to the enchantment which distance
is said to lend to the view Of objects. How
frmlyrooted this idea is IN the minds of rulers
is shown by the TACT that when the Library
building was erected in Munich about 30
years ago, King Ludwig 1. intended that the
magnificent staircase with marble columns
should be used solely by members of the
royal family and never desecrated by plebe-
ian feet, which were expected, no matter
how learned the head they carried, to go
roundabout through the court and climb up
some other way. Even under the present
Prince Regent an attempt was made to ex-
clude the public from the royal park at
Nymphenburg, bat was prevented by ener-
getic protests OF the people and the press. If
the subjects of European monarehies enjoy
these pleasure grounds of princes, the privi-
lege is not due to- the kindness and COM
placency of the monarchs themselves, but
to the irresistible progress of democratic
ideas.
1t was not until 1910, under Duke Maxi
milan l., that the Court Brewery was per-
mitted to sell beer under the hoop, E., in
kegs, to innkeepers and private persons, and
this practice was continued, not as a favor
to the general public, but because it was q
source of revenue and put money into the
Golfers of the Duke. The net sum received
from this source in 1880 amounted to ZIG, 900
forms, which would correspond in value
nowadays to as many millions. 1t was not
till 1906 that the brewery was provided with
the schenk, or taproom, in which the inhab-
itants of Munich could get beer on draught
and drink it on the premises This room was
enlarged in 1914 and again in 1928, and has
In late years been renovated and "beauti-
fed" to the great disgust ana intense anxi-
ETY. of the old stammgaeste or habitual ire
quenters of the place, who were firmly con-
WINGED that any diminution of nastiness and
increase of fresh air would be necessarily
followed by deterioration in the quality Of
the beverage. The work of publication and
haa Al
radical to produce this much-feared result,
and the stranger would never suspect that
such a renovation had been effected, unless
the information were impaired to him by his
guide, and naturally wonder what must
have been its primitive condition.
ORIGIN OF BocK BEER.
In Munich the attention of the tourist is
often called to the picture of he-goat stand
ing on its hind legs and tapping beer out of
a foamIng mug, to which is sometimes added
the statement that "iresh book is to be had
here" Book, which means he-goat, is the
name OF a strong beer, drunk especially in
the spring of the year, and generally sup
posed to be so called on account of its but
ting qualities, two stiff horns being sufficient
to knock man over. This use OF the word,
which even an English author of the seven
teenth century favors when he speaks in a
Latin treatise of cereyisia cui ab ariete aut
Capricornio nomen, affords q fine example
of popular etymology, and illustrates, on a
small scale, the origin and growth of
The he-goat is fiction, and
book is only corruption of Einbeck or
Ainbeck and Ainpeck, as the name of the
town was also spelled. The
Munichers, as we have already seen, called
this beer "einpeckisch" and "ainpockisch,
and as Einbeck was gradually forgotten,
and, indeed, has long since ceased to be
famous for its beer, the adjective was ab-
breViated and transformed into the sub
stantive book and the animal associated
with the beverage owing to the butting or
heady character peculiar to both. This cor
ruption of the term must have taken place
quite early after the introduction of the
beer, for in Munich police regulation of
1916 it is forbidden to "brew Bock-Meet
,buck-mead, the strongest kind of beer),
except for the needs of the sick" Curiously
enough, from this corruption of the word
another kind of beer derives its name: in the
Jesuit cloisters a mIlder beer was brewed
,alled gaiss (goat in general or she-goat)
ind recommended as having less strongly
putting propensities (weniger stark anstos-
Iende Eigenschaiten) than book.
The habitues of the court brewery are
representatives. of all classes of society, and |
among them are always some queer eharac-
ers. Authors, artists, scholars, professors,
)ficers of the army, officials of the civil |
ervice, merchants, mechanics, peasants, day |
aborers, are found here sitting together re-
,ardless of rank or riches. It is perhaps |
he most democratic spot on the face of the |
,arth. where the meanest never thinks of |
'owing, nor the greatest of condescending to
lis associates. Here Prangerl, the court |
DOL of King Macmillan l., used to play |
lis pranks; here Sulzbeck, the court chamber |
spent all his leisure hours, and is
aid to have been able to drink a bucket
ull of beer at a single sitting; here the
aVorite waitress, known as ''the fair Peppi,"
Who might have sat as a model for Fritz Won
Aaulbach's famous painting of the Schultz
'nlirl, was wont to serve her guzzling
'uests with ever ready smiles and Jokes and
a foaming quart mugs in her hands at once.
Why is it that beer possessing the same
Qualities as that of Munich cannot be
,rewed elsewhere? It is certain that every
tempt of the kind has hitherto failed. The
ealest approach to it in any foreign city is
ound perhaps in Milwaukee; but nowhere
10 the same processes produce precisely the
anne results. The difference is due in all
to local atmospheric influences
tfecting the vigor and vitality of the BARN.
nngus (sacharomyces cereVIsie) which
auses the fermentation of the wort or sweet
nfusion of malt, and converts it into beer.
he Munich climate seems to be peculiarly
avorable to the development of this fungus,
} that the fermentation of the wort is more
omplete and the beer more palatable and
igestible there than it would be under
ther climatic conditions
EDWARD PAYsoN EVANS.
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