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according to a newspa «r beer wtt- introdnoedUnited Statrn oaly thirty jmh ago. ThatIXr*EcI**1wiordlaiNatPiHJgreat Qerman migration was beginning, and oar Teutonic friaodi brought along with than their god (aambriana, tad certainly ho haa baan a welcome gueat The hiatory of bMr earriaa oa back to Um old Egyptians, who are add to hate invented it, aa they did many other thioga, including ooom of oar religioaa practice*. They were a remarkable people, aod doubt* ha Mom learned much from them. Our modern beer, however, dates beak only to the time of Charlemnnge, whan hope ware drat cultivated in Europe. The mooke ware the brewer* of the Middle Ages, aa they alao ware the graat agriculturist*, and thay kept the secret of its manufacture far a long period, enjoying the exclutive privilege of concocting a liquor which haa now beoome a favorite drink of the civilised world, and oat of who** brewing vast for-tones have been made, so that in England the brewers stand next to the aristocracy inaoaal consequence, with abundant wealth In wi stain the poaitioo.As early as the fourteenth century, Bavaria was celebrated for its beer, and now | II it makes an article of a qualit, not eg called in Germany. A century later Sag pa breweriaa became v«ll known, but th English—Aext to the Garmaoa, and. cf| l Uts, ouraelvea, the great beer drinker*— did not begin to manufacture the beverage pntil Later. In 1624, however, they were mkicf beer from hops. The trouble with the English beer is that it is too heavy and «ao heady, and therefore a recent icmpe-Vtoce advocate in England urges the popularisation of the German lager, a much lighter and more innocent poriaiion.Bo.important is beer brewing in Germany that there has been established at Nuremberg a school of breweis where all the mysteries of the art are taught, and it is a very useful insulation, more useful, in fbot, than some some more pretentious collages; for good brewers, like good cook*, are a blearing to his race, and though it may be necessary that they should be bora and not made, yet nothing commendable is done exorpt after training.It is really a fortunate circumstance that lager bear is growing to be so porular a drink with us. If it shall drive out whie key and other strong driuks, it will do more for temperance than a regiment of Cocoas and Mcxrmr* could accomplish for it is well sailed to our nervous anci •enaitive people, while whiskey, once known aa the national beverege, and stil1 so largely consumed at the West and South, is the wont drink man can consume.Therefore wa are glad to see bow vast haa been the increase in the manufacture of lager bear in the United States; end if oil our citiaens would follow the example ot the hearty Gtrmans in taking their wlvea and children with them to the beer garden when they seek convival companionship, uitead of selfishly going alone to a corner gin mill, their morals woo Id be batter, we should have fewer criminals, and drunkenness would be far lam than
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Wilmington Morning Herald
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Sat, Jun 23, 1877
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