The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
GOOD BEER-HOW 1T is MADE
Light Lager Was FaU01te Kind Before V0lStead Days
BY JOSEPH MITCHELL AND
WILLIAM ID. O'BRIEN
Pines star Writer

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Copyright. 1882 bv the New York World
telegram CorDorationi
IN the breweries of the metropo-
Il lis, sturdy barley and hops
from American fields can be malt
ed and brewed with clear Catskill
water and turned into lager, por-
ter, ale and book as good as the
beverages pumped into the stems
and wooden cans in the gasthau-
sen and beer gardens of Munich.
A proud but equitable Bavarian
brew judge once drank from
mug Of the effervescent Francis
kaner" made in George Ehrets'
old He'll Gate brewery and pro-
nounced it superior to the aver
age Munich beer"
Many beverage juries have
agreed that no nations soil can
produce better beer ingredients
than the staunch barley kernels
and bitter hop cones grown on
the farms of the United States.
The water which flows into
Manhattan from the Catskill
lakes will not bear stern COMPARE
son with the water the Munich
braumeister receives from the be-
nevolent River Isar. But ours is
not the worst beer water. 1t will
stand up.
When the Volstead act is modi-
fed, the old brands, the old
flamboyant labels, will be re-
vived. The housewife, making her
daily grocery list, can specify
"one dozen Knickerbocker,' or
"one dozen Rheingold"
Or she can choose from bottles
marked with venerable, distin-
guished brewery names-Doelger,
Hittleman, Michel, Lehman,
Piel, Trommer, Eichler, Rubsam
& Hermann, Schaefer, Gottfried-
Kreuger.
ar, if her grocer carries a
Omixed and imported stock, she
can ask for the beer of Schlitz,
Pabst, Blatz, Haffenreffer, Strohn,
H nm, Goetz, Buchanan,
Schmidt, or Scheidt.
She can have her choice. All the
breweries represented by these
names will begin bottling real
lager the moment congress gives
permission.
The Pabst BLUE Ribbon" brand,
the blond liquid certainly will be
Sold and without doubt the sign
with the solid red triangle adver-
Using Evans ale will be seen in
restaurants.
And maybe fires will be kindled
in the furnaces beneath the watts
of the small, worthy Manhattan
brewery of Schwanenfluegel g.
Schmidt.
The famous ale drinkers
creed" often printed on the
menus of restaurants before pro-
hibition, may once again receive
the attention of stout-hearted
citizens. The paragraph, written
in 1887 by one John Taylor, a
Londoner, peace to his soul, is as
follows:
ALE is rightly called nappy, for
1t will set a nap upon mans
thread-bare eyes when he is
sleepy. 1t is called merry-goe-
down for it slides down merrily;
it is fragrant to the Sent, it is
most pleasing to the taste.
THE speedy taking of it dothe
comfort heavy and troubled
minde; it will make a weeping
widow laugh and forget sorrow
for her deceased husband. 1t will
cause a man to Speake past his
own Or any other mans capacity
of understanding.
ct neither hurts or kills any
but thos who abuse it unmeas-
urably and beyond bearing. 1t is
such a nourisher of Mankinde,
that if my Mouthe we're as bigge
as a Bishopgate, my Pen as long
as "a Maypole, and my hike a
flowing Spring, Or a standing fish
pond, yet I could not with Mouth,
Pen or hike speake or write the
true worth or worthiness of Ale
DUT this is not likely. For both
ID ale and porter-it was once
called porter's ale-were practi-
cally obsolete in most sections of
this country long before the act
and amendment era.
Porter. dark beer brewed from
Drowned or charred malt, and ale,