The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-05
oLD-PASHIONED BEER.
A Growing Demand for beer Made with
out Modern American ImProvements.

u NAOuern american improvements.
Once In a while throughout town there is seen
nowadays the siRn Old Fashioned Beer" and
tho question. therefore. is asked by SOM per-
sons why, despite all tho improvements which
have been made Of late years in beer manufac-
ture, it should be thought desirable to turn. as
1t were. the hands of the dial OF time backward
In order TO supply thirsty and bibulous indivld-
unls with old-fashioned beer instead of what
ought to be better up-to.date beer. The expla-
nation of the matter is this:
Following the outbreak OF the German revolu
tion In 1913 there was a large augmentation in
the German emigration to the United States.
an Incident TO this an increased demand for
American beer, then furnished on a small scale
by practical brewers. who had learned their
trade as workmen abroad, rising by gradual
steps to the post OF foreman. There are q few
New York brewers who can date back to the
establishment of their business to forty years
ago or more: but the majority of boss
brewers are OF the second renerHtion,that
Germans were the chief consumers of beer
them WAS u practical reproduction Of the beer
sold in Germany. BY degrees. however, MS beer
the cond lions Of the climate made desirable
certain changes In manufacture. German beer
too. Recently there has been q large invest
ment in the securities OF American breweries
by EngllSlinen. and tie beer now sold in New
York saloons more nearly the Eng
lish than tue German article. Hence ohere has
been a demand for return to old fashioned beer.
as II is called. hrewed on the German plan of
forty years ago without any Of the more recent
and, IL il alleged. leletcriuus variations.
The merits claimed for old fashioned beer
are. first. that 1t IL made exclusively Of barley
malt and hnps without any use of grape sugar.
InOlRsse@. cercalile. rice. or glucose. anu. second.
that II is warranted TO be free from ~saIirylic
acid. Sal:cylic acid in beer is looked upon gem
orally As u harmful drug: but the fact is that IL
ia M nnflfntn fnr nlrpInl mud 1iniutahaS fla
danger OF intoxiCation from the use OF beer.
ton, for the ingredients used IN some lager beer
require such artificial aid TO preservation. Sa.
licylic acid has All urfavorabie effect upon the
stomach. of the coating Ot which 1t Is AN irri-
tant. hut 1t is laid by chemists to be by no
means so injurious rs some persons claim. and
many physicians in fact prescribe 1t regularly
In their practice for rheumatic patients.
Incidental TO the revival In popularity of old
fashioned beer there has been an increased de-
mand for old fashioned German beer mugs Of
the kind familiar to travellers in Germany.
ornamented with grotesQue figures and having
pewter tops, IT heing ono of the traditions OF
beer drinkers that direct rays OF light falling
through glass upon beer impair its quality. and
that. therefore. the veritahie German beverage
should be served, wherever possible. ia stCUle
mugs. A spcculator who brought Il large num-
Der OF these mugs from Germany n few years
ago to introduce them in the United States sus-
tanned heavy losses on the transaction. but the
demand for mugs Of German design but Amer
lean manufacture is said to be on the increase