The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-28
WHEN BEER IS BEST.
The Proper Way to Drink II Is
From a Stone Mug.
A Connoisseur Tells About the Difference in
Taste and Flavor Of Beer From
Classes and Stems"

Beer in a glass! Not for mel" remarked
portly gentleman to CALL reporter last
evening, as he stretched himself, dropping
down little in his chair, and with evident
content, slipped the cool, imported beer from
a Munich stein" with relish and comfort.
90 My friend, you have a great deal to
learn yet about how to drink beer, and so
have the majority of people in San Fran
cisco"
"There can't be much difference, surely"
suggested the reporter. "and, besides, the
stone mugs look clumser than the glasses"
"Oh, well, if you people care for appear
ances, there is no use in talking about real
luxury in drinking; none, sir, l tell you.
You are spoiled"
-" But if there is difference l would like
to know it," replied the reporter, who is
fond of a glass of cool beer himself on
warm evening in July.
VERY well, then, I'll tell you something
that will surprise you. 1t was discovered
long ago in Munich, the beer town. that
the same beer of good quality does not taste
as well out Of glass as it does out of the
gray stone mug so we'll known in Bavaria.
The difference is remarkable in the taste of
one and the same beer served in these YES
sells. Beer becomes warm more rapidly in
the glass than it does in the stone mug, and
if the mug is heated by placing it in hot
water there is total absence Of that Pc
culiar disparity in taste which presents
itself so strongly between the flavor of the
beer in the glass and that in the stone mug.
OTHER CAUSES OF THE CHANGE.
"Recent scientific researches have estab-
lished the fact that there are two other
causes which enter into bringing about the
change in beer in glass-that is, the pene-
trating of the light and dissolving of the
glass in the beer.
Fill glass and stein with beer from
the same key set them for brief space of
time in the sunlight and you will find that
the beer in the glass has acquired pecu-
lar dsagreeable flavor and smell, while the
beer in the stein has remained good and
palatabe. SO you can see how sensitive
liquid is beer.
in flavor and smell will be established when
vessels are placed in a dark, cold cellar,
and what causes this? The material from
which the vessel is constructed. Wherever
a test of this kind is made it has been found
that at the expiration Of five minutes the
taste and smell of the beer in the glass is
distinctly and strongly different from that
in the gray stone mug. The beer III the
glass tastes sharp, thin and fiat, while the
beer in the stone mug has a sweet. mild,
delicate and round taste, and the difference
increases with the length OF time.
GLASS is SWALLOWED.
1.-The notable degeneration Of beer in
glass, even i'll dark, cool cellar, from
which the other conditions which Influence
beer uniayora5ly are excluded, is due to the
fact that beer contains large quantity of
carbonic acid and this dissOlves very
rapidly small quantities OF glass. EXanina-
lions founded on this belief were made and
the fact was established that ordinary beer
glasses, submerged for fifteen days in lager
beer, lost 312 to lG2 mlllgrams OF their
original weight. Thus it has been calcu-
lated that beer-drinker who consumes in
one evening two pints of beer swallows at
least .0010 to OOPS milligrams of glass.
" The ordinary beer glass contains as a
rule quantity of oxide Of lead, and there
fore mpairs the smell and flavor of beer.
because beer dissolveS rapidly the glass
substance containing lead The graystone
mug of Bavaria, which has been glazed
with common salt, IS free from lead, and
the material from which it is made is much
less soluble than glass. When man
drinks beer out of a covered stone mug for
any time he can never again drink 1T from
Il glass, as 1t world taste brackish and in
sipid TO him.
BETTER BEER GoBLETS.
" But the stone mug is not the best beer
goblet. Beer tastes finer and more delicate
out oil TIN cup, sucn as Llghtlnger OF
Munich makes; therefore good tin cup is
preferable TO the stein" And the mug is
surpassed by the gold-lned silver mug,
which is king of vessels for the drinking Of
beer. Beer served in it discoses slrikingly
the delicate quality of the beverage, which
is lost wholly in glasses. Any one who
will dl ink the same beer first from gold
lined mug and then from an ordinary beer
glass will Instantly recognize the enormous
waste and destruction of the flavor of the
beer, to which the beer-drnklng public has
been obliged to submit through tie serving
of beer in the ordinary glass"
The connoisseur turned half around in
his chair, lifted the pewter cover of his
"stein and finished the beverage that had
remained cool while he spoke. Zach, that's
BEER" he exclaimed, a he finished with
smack and a cOntenled "Ah-h-h!'