The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

and aromatic DOdleS Ill small qudAt4- ties result The product is beer. The beer is then placed ill vafs that it may properly age and undergo slow after fermentation and fripening. Finally 1t is filtered. placed in barrels or bottles Bottled beer is generally pasteurized for the reason have already stated. American beer usually contains from to. per cent of extrlct-that means soluble food products. It contains from . to 4 per cent of alcohol
 One of the most interesting constitU- ents that has been found in beer lately is peculiar substance called lecithiE9 It has long been known that the pbOs- phates were always present in beers and the last discovery shows that they are absolutely essential to the process of fermentation. But the discovery of lecithin- is especially Interesting be- cause Iecithin is a substance which was found some time ago as Il constituent of the brain 1t is very interesting compound of fatty constituents and phosphorus. and when it's presence in the brain was first discovered it at- tracted a great deal of attention. It was thought, even, that it might be the source of mental action. and some suggested the proper name for it would be '.denkstoff. or thinking stuff.
 They tell good story about this dis coyery. When they first discovered the phosphorus in the brain somebody else discovered that there was phos- phorus iii the fish. and they starred story that fish would be good food for the brain. And so q young stu dent wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes and wanted to know if that story wls true. and if~so what would be the prop A T1Fs. ToI him back as follows: My son. it is quite true that the brain contains phosphor- us. and it is also true that fish con- tain phosphorus, and after carefully perusing your letter would s;ty that the proper dose for you would be a whale on tolst'
 How Beer Resembles Bread.
 When we cotne to consider the reIa- tion of beer to food we are struck by the analogy of beer and bread Bread is made from cereals: SO iss beer. The bread with little water is solid. the beer with more water is liquid. The yeast is employed in both. It produces alcoholic fermentation in both. Ii con verts both into palatable and readily digested food Both contain alcOhoL and carbon dioxfde. Beer contains from 3 to per cent alcohol and is not ~ i quantities. Beer also has bitter and aromatic bodies derived from hops, which give it an acceptable flavor and produce tonic effects. Further. beer ie one of the foods free from bacteria. You might be afraid of water, of milk. but the method of making beer, dry ing, heating. pitsteurizing ;tnd 6lteriug it completely free beer from baCteta. Beer is food and wholesome. It cen tains carbohydrates and albuminolds and mineral materials required br uur system It is appetizing. It aids di- gestion. has enzymeS-
 1 myself have been familiar with sae use of beer as an article of food from my childhood. 1 remember the ba"lel Of ale in my fathers cellar. When 1 was seventeen went to Gernluuy to study and learned to use beer as an article of food at the University of Goettingen. My first experience really came soon after I reached GoettnEen when l made a walking tour through the Harz mountains with three other Americans. and I remember to this day with satisfaction how I enjoyed | at some roadside gasthaus'' my but l terbrod. schweizerkase and bier have taken beer or ale pretty regularly al! my life with my lunch. have en- joyed the most perfect health. able to 1 do a hard day's work every day, and as I was born in 1886. I think ann pretty good specimen of its food value
 AduIteration Talk Is Nonsense
 You know we read in the pa-'ers great deal about adulterations- Of course most of it is nonsense. l have had occasion to investigate the ques- tion, and l find that adulteration in beer is gross exaggeration- There may be misbrandings, but there is no adui- iteration.
 Beer does not make drunkards. The effect of prohibition would drive beer out of the household. It would deprive a large percentage of our population af a perfectly honest. wholesome. nutrt
 tious article of food. There is drunk
 enness, there is intemperance. but it does not come from beer. If we are
 to have laws Let those laws be inteitl- gent laws, laws that will discriminate
 between what does harm. and what does not do harm. I think I have giX
 en reasons enough why beer has i'E come national beverage in this coun- try