Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

quently. No traces of either were found in
these analyses. No living bacteria were de-
tected, and it is pleasure to find these om-
nipresent organisms absent from something.
To drop to slang-lIterally there are no
flies on beer.
There were indications in some samples of
there having been carbonate of soda added
to the beer to neutralize the acid and in
crease the foam. This, of course, is not in
furious to the drinker; nevertheless the
drinker feels himself injured, for when he
gets thimb bleful of beer buried under q
glassful OF froth, ne thinks, and rightly,
that the dispenser is making undue money
off of hiE.
RESULT OF DRINKING IMPURE BEER.
In regard to the actual results of con-
tinually drinking q beer containing the
impurities detected. the writer is aware that
many a stout and healthy individual viii!
argue thus: 81 have been drinking beer all
my life and / am sound man to-day; SO 1t
can't be adulterated so awfully much.
But this individual must remember these
three things: That there are exceptions to
rules; that the effect of adulterated beer
may yet tell on him (if he drinks much OF
the adulterated brands), and, lastly, that
be is probably not so healthy man as he
practicing physician has constantly under
his care one or more victims of impure
beer.
Again, as each individual beer drinker
hears a reference to adulterated beer, he will
say: "Ohi yes, there is lots of impure beer
on the market. You ought to drink only
the so-and-so brand: it is the only pure
article" We should answer "Don't be TOO
sure about that"
A VERY FAIR SHOWING.
In reference to the above analysis it
should be stated that no one sample of beer
contained more than three of the four i'm
purities found, and of the fifteen samples no
impurities at all were detected in ten sam
piles. This is a showing of 33H per cent Of
impure beer on the market. This percent
age is, however, but little, if any worse,
than is the case with the majority of manu-
factured articles of food and drink. All
kinds of such products are more or less
adulterated.
The present article must not be considered
as a polemic against the brewers in general,
for, as have said, their products are no
worse than those of other manufacturers,
and it must be said for them that the more
responsible ones, some of whom have been
spoken to in regard to this matter, are aware
of the prevalent adulteration of beer, and
OcplOIc 4uc1 AuOW tudb ~ ID uOuC anu
they know how to do it, but refrain from
the nefarious practices themselves, as mat
ter of principle, though they could i'm
mensely increase their profits if they should
yield to greed. The writer has talked with
some of the best brewers in the country and
they all agree that a stop of some kind
should be put to the
WHOLESALE ADULTERATIoN
going on in many local and distant brew
cries; they say it is damaging the honest
brewer who brews with an eye only to the
legitimate profits of his business. 1t is we'll
that there are a few of these honest fellows,
for if all the beer sold was as bad as some of
the samples analyzed, the future of our peo-
pie would be appalling to consider.
This suggests the only immediate rem
edy-the only thing the beer-drinker can
do to lessen the risk of detriment 10 his
health from impure beer-that is, don't
confine your potations to any one brand of
beer, but let them be of as many different
brands as possible" As about 33H per
cent of all beer supplied to the Pittsburg
consumer is adulterated, by conglomera-
tion of beers you will get two glasses of
the pure article for one of the impure. That
is two to one in your favor and is the best
you can do under the circumstances.
CHEvALIER q. JACKSON, M. D.