The herald., 1897-12-26
THE BOTTLING OF BEER
AT THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT
OF ADLOFF & HAUERWAsS
Progressive and Successful Methods
of Cold Storage for 5000 Barrels.
Distributing Facilities

AS year succeeds year it is very no.
ticeable-and upon more than one occa-
sion has been commented upon-that the
people of the United States are becoming
large consumers of beer In SO far as
1t has displaced distilled spirits this is,
perhaps, a matter for congratuation,
and if the consumption of tea and coffee
should be reduced no particular outcry
need be made since their nourishng
qualities are nominal, but the consump-
ton OF the light wines has also de-
creased. In 1870 the per capita con-
sumption Of tea in the United States was
10 pounds, coffee 6 pounds, wines 80
gallons, distilled spirits 2.07 gallons and
malt liquors 5.31 gallons. In 1896, with
vastly increased population, very
radical change in the proportionate con-
sumption of these articles had taken
place. In that year the per capita
amounts were: Tea 131 pounds, coffee
s.04 pounds, wines .26 gallons, distilled
spirits l gallon, and malt liquors Is. 1C
gallons.
The use of fermented liquors made
from grain of some kind dates from very
widely separated people. Thus Tacitus
mentions beer as the ordinary drink Of
the Germans of his day, and Pliny no.
tices a similar beverage as used by. the
Spaniards. The consumption OF beer in
modern times is so great that its manu-
facture has risen to tine rank of an i'm
portant and lucrative industry giving
employment to tens Of thousands of en-
ployes and furnishing a market for the
hops and grain Of the farmer A little
over week ago eighteen carloads of
hops were shipped east from San Fran
cisco and formed one consignment to an
English brewery. Incidentally it may
be mentioned that despite the yearly in
crease in the United States of beer, it
has not yet approached the per capita
amount Of England, where it is 34.5 gall
Ions. The equilibrium is restored some
what for Great Britain by Scotland's per
capita being only 1871 and Ireland 10
gallons.
In Los Angeles the consumption of
lager beer is quite large, particularly
during the summer season, when it
forms a refreshing and comparatively
speaking innocuous beverage Consid-
ering the large amount consumed in this
as in all other cities the question Of its
distribution is one not without interest
AS the thirsty pedestrian eyes the spark
ling bubbles rising in the glass of amber
fluid he little thinks, and probably cares
still less, of the vast amount of care be-
slowed upon it. The firm of Adolf G.
f1auerwass have just erected new cold
storage and bottling works on Vine
street. close to First, and the expensive
plant now being installed in the block Of
buildings, which cover an acre of ground,
is revelation to the ordinary citizen.
The entrance is through a heavily
spanned and iron gated archway Of
brick into a large courtyard having the
offices and works on the right, the stor-
age and wagon sheds with a carpenter
shop to the left, and perhaps the most
novel and best appointed stable in Los
Angeles facing the upper end Asa agent
for the San Francisco breweries. limited.
the we'll known product of that corpora =
tion Is here bottled and made ready for
distribution throughout Southern Cali
fornia and large portion Of Arizona. To
bottle anything seems TO be a most SIM
pie operation, and yet to bottle beer re-
quires wide knowledge and the requisite