The sun., 1893-10-01
IN A MINIATURE BREWERY!
THE sTUDY-PBA CE or MEN VINO HoPR
TO BECOME BEER BRRHERS.

| There is a complete and model brewery vey
| close to the City Hall. but It is one that never
sells it's beor or advertisos II, or whose pronri.
| etors show any concern about what become:
| OF It. This model brewery plant is one that
has recently been added to the apparatus in
| use in tho United Stnins Brewers Academy IN
Worth street. where that street runs into Chat.
| ham square. The little brewery, esta blishei
| for the teaching and practice of brewing under
| the observation of those who want to Learn he
trade, is as prettya series OF hits OF me crhanIsm
| as any machinery exhibited at the Chicago
! Worlds Fair, and 1t is big enough to brew ten /
barrels of lager beer dav the year around It
| occupies four miniature stories built m with
in two real stories of the academy huildirg.
and It forms II brewery entire from the make
believe collars TO the kiln Of The equally com.
pete mathousc which Is Joined to 1t. Tive
plant Is more than complete. for 1t combines
apparatus for more than one system, IT, order
| TO allow students to practise more than one
method in any branch OF the business urnn
which the brewers disagree
The time has gone by when any man with =
tea kettle and washtub can successfully cs-
tablish lager beer brewery in any populous
part Of this country. rs was once the In
tho days OF the fathers OF our big brewers. /,
not in the days and actual cases OF somo ot
these brewers themselves Even after lager
beer had become popular American
drink. and whom tho best brewers hal
become millionaires. they still followed tn,
old country custom OF appointing as brow.
master or foreman any clever on
ployee who mad been a good workman
and knew how to brew beer hy dumb luck and
good mimicry OF what he had seen other
brewers do. That was the rule until within
very few years. and even then the brewers
who expected their sons to succeed them fol-
lowed another old country custom that was tho
best that they knew. This led them TO ap-
prentice their sons to other brewers and they
always sent the boys to tn. biggest breweries
in this country or in Europe. hoping that
they would manage to pick up some secret
that was at the bottom OF such a brewerys
popularity. or course. in nearly all such cases
the prosperity was due to shrcwd business
methods, which might have been studied in
the counting rooms Of the breweries but could
not be even guessed at by apprentice
among the workmen When such an nppreu-
ticcship had been served the heir to the busi-
ness came back and waited for his turn
to become foreman OF business managed
on blind traditions and operated by tho force
OF dumb luck. All that Is part of the dead
past. The science Of beer brewing is based on
chemical processes. and the brewers OF the
future must understand at least much OF
not only must know how beer is brewed, but
they must understand why ono step follows
fault that occurs during the hrewings.
TO put it % as one brewer Of the new type,ex
went wrong with the brew. to suspect that
some discharged workman hal pat something
him. The new plan is to tnke accharometer
and determine the stage Of fermentation. ex- I
necessary. s s max make 'e ehemieaI esamina,on H OF
the liquor itself. In that way. and in that way !
th alone can o, an even grade of beer he produced
To one who thinks only OF the millionaire
brewers and makes no account of the great
mum her that merely struggle along. 1t would
seem as thought Brewers Academy was u
school for the making OF great fortunes. One
by prospective pupils. The fact is that this |
academy graduates on y about sixty, men and \
60 there to study. 1t is a school for master 4
Workmen and not Tor brewery owners; al-
there quite rs an essential to the successful
ownership OF such properties in the future,
brewers above the age OF eighteen. tnd pos
SCISSORS OF q good common, school education.
simple. because u man or boy need only work
two years in brewery IN order to become Q
rsEea he eow 1"s
such In one year. Then he needs only to pay
IN wSh !. o oa 2n ons
The brew1rs academy has two terms
in Tetruary, The school is now twelve, twelve
S ah @ GsR yons nspasd wsS Y
sna be m s b sush shs as c.s
a"ywhere from 800 &C to sl5 900 s Year tsSffs fhs
ior it's alumni. but il notifies, the brewers OF
America that they will DO well to call on the
cancies in their establishments, and the brew
Srs keep their eyes on the little school; To-
sponsible positions in large hrewerics:, The
head OF every department in Ehret's
OF the foreman. is graduate OF the
academy, Though nearly all the pn-
class. and even Sradnate holds t"e irst. ist
grade diploma he cannot he II foreman or
acknowledgement @ unless he knows secret Ihat
The great and rich brewers are sending their
SON. sons through this school, in order that;
the hreweries or not. they may know as much
ssss as their master worknmeni; lmoong III, puptIs
Busch Company. young Huber and two Of tho
Il biebmanns 3, Of Brooklyn; Lemp q ST. Louis
young Woerz and young Schmitt Of this city.
The snperintendents, or brewma.tcrs Of ~
are from this school. a fact that argues an
improvement in the beverage and a revolution
Of luck and turning It over to science.
tba me nS0tr S0mmoR practice o. me zig hrSwers o.
good common-school education and then put
them In their own or some one "laeS brewery
tHsy tHs ssnd W9 sm to 4 s wnn s
scientific instruction Then they may nut
them through college, but they are more
likely to give them torn or two in one of the
so-called business colleges" in order to
ground them In bookkeeping and Office work
and leave them fitted To- manage both ends Of
the business, This mainly applies to tho Ger
man lager beer brewers, The Americans, who
are in the ale brewing business. as n rule.
are welded to the old traditions Of their bust
ness and are content to make ale as their
fathers and predecessors made II. They re-
gard brewing as Hn art. Mherens the new idea
IL that 1t isa science. liowever. an English
class ia mantainsi at the urndemy, one that
averages about oght or ten pupils. The Ger
man class is thirty strong.
There are six professors in the academy
corps and they teach both theoretical and
practical brewing. FIRST. Il ley take up an in.
troiurtion to general chemistry. defining aud
ex planning elements. combinations. acldb, /
bases. and salts. and the characteristics 4 /
carbon aicohols acids aibuminoids, ethereal
Gorman chemists call bitter stuffs- This course