Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-19
AS TO GOOD BEER.
Virtues of Barley Malt as
Against Corn Beer.
Aug. Busch, Vice-President Of
the Anheuser-Busch Brew
ing Association, In
terviewed.
Effort to Manufacture Cheap
Beer and it's Results.


From St Louis Sunday Mirror, Dec. 81
An editorial in the Sunday Mirror O
last week on the subject of "Beer Cul
ture" attracted a great deal of atten
ton by reason of the statement made
therein that there are superior and in
ferior articles of beer selling to con-
sumers at the same price per glass
There was no intention in the article
to do an injury to any brewery inter.
est, but to inform the reader that he
should insist on having the best beer
for his money and not accept the in.
ferior Superior beer is made of bar
ley malt. Barley malt is expensive
and the beer made from it is made by
superior processes. The common
beer is maze of corn and barley malt,
in about equal proportion, but the bar
ley malt is not necessarily of fine
quality and it is brewed cheaply.
Mr. August A. Busch, of the An
heuserBusch Brewing Association,
speaking on the subject of superior
and inferior beers, said to represen-
tative of the Sunday Mirror yester-
day:
II have no desire to say anything
for or against beer manufactured by
other brewers. Your paper is adopt
ing the right course, however, in en-
deavoring to educate the people on the
subject of superior and inferior beers.
But as far as the Anheuser-Busch
brewery is concerned we are out of
competition"
''Do you use corn in the brewing of
the Anheuser-Busc beers ?o
"Corn, or corn preparations, used by
so many breweries, never enter the
gates of the Anheuser- Busch Brewing
A ssociatiOn. The secret of the success
of our beer is due to the fact that we
use nothing but the finest malt and
the choicest hops and allow the beer to
thoroughly mature before it enters in
to consumption. Hence, our beer is
not only the best and the healthiest
beverage, but also the highest priced
beer offered to the public. Beer made
of corn and corn preparations is natu-
rally cheap, and the quality is cheap
accordingly"
"How is the public to know which
is the pure beer and which is not ?"
81 do not care to say anything about
any other beer than that of the An
heuser- Busch Brewing Association.
| simply say that we use only the best
barley malt ard the choicest of every
thing. The motto of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Association is: The
best is not too good
"Beer made from barley malt is, of
course, more nutritious and whole
some than that made from corn and
corn preparations
"If you want to know what is good
beer and what is not you have only to
ask which beer cost the dealer the
most and which costs the least. The
association of which | am vice presi-
dent has made it n study to produce the
purest and finest beer that can be made,
and we have established reputation
which shows that we have succeeded.
You will never make a mistake by
buying this beer. 1t is in foreign
countries the most serious rival to the
celebrated Bass ale of England. 1t
has nearly excluded it from the United
States. Every man who keeps table
of which he is proud feels that it is
not complete without one of our brands
of beer. This is one of our highest
make the Anheuser-Busch
beer the table drink of the world"
There is no desire to raise an agita-
ton on the question of beer adultera
ton, and it is not intended to be in
ferred that beers not made from barley
malt are adulterated. The point made
is that they are cheap and of lower
grade than the other. So little is
known by beer-consumers of what
they are given in beer to drink that
the time for popular education as to
the ingredients of various beers has
arrived. AS the best beer can be
bought at the same price per glass as
the poorest beer, the consumer should
know which is the highest grade. The
effort to make money out of the man
ufacture of beer by those who are not |
in establishing a reputation |
Or producing an article of beer conced-
eddy fine, or in the cultivation of a !
perfect beer, should be looked on with
suspicion by the beer consumer, who
has the right to demand of all brew
ers beer as good as the best.
Miles Nerve and LIVER Pills.