1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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a beer called Vinko de Batatas, from the Batata^ root. Svra, a Peruvian beer, was formerly forbidden by the Incas because of its extremely intoxicating nature. Austria. The most famous beer is perhaps the Pilsener, or white beer, from Pilsen in Bohemia, the favourite idrink in Vienna, Gratzer is brewed from wheat malt. Bavaria. The peculiar flavour of the Bavarian ale is perhaps a result of the very free use of pitch or resinous matters to protect the wood of the fermenting tun, but it seems more probable that it is due to the com- mixture of pine tops. Schenk beer is draught beer, in contradistinction to Lager, or store beer. The one is drunk in summer, the othe rin winter. Bock deer^ and Salvator, dark heavy kinds of stout, are both well known. Kaiserslautern is the name of a famous brewage in Rhenish Bavaria. Belgium. White beers, the result of a mixture of oats and wheat, called Walgbaert and Happe, were made in Brussels in the fifteenth century. Roetbier and Zwart- bier were, as their names tell us, red and black beers. Cuyte was at one time a favourite and aristocratic ^ This is the sweet potato, introduced into Europe before the common potato. 2 For an interesting account of this, vid., Dr. Charnock's Verba I^ominalia.