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exhibits the parties drinking it with a new face ; and Christian Mitmmer of Brunswick, the supposed in- ventor of the drink, have been by turns suggested. The varied kinds of Schenk, or winter beer, and Lager^ or summer beer, are fairly well known. The Leipzig Goose and the Berlin white beer are refreshing drinks in summer. An excellent description of Bierbrauerei apparatus is given in Brockhaus' Conversations Lexikon/ Band iii. The most important beer factories are in Munich,^ Erlangen, Zirndorf, Nurnberg, and Vienna. German beer is far less potent than that of England, but want of strength is made up by the quantity taken. From the time of Goethe, and long before, Germans were great consumers of beer, and the scene in his *' Faust," of students in Auerbach's Cellar, was typical of his time. Now-a-days there is no degeneracy in the German beer drinker, and a' Viennese '' Saufender Renommist " will drink his thirty half-pints of Mdrzen at a sitting. German beers are now readily attainable at any German restaurant in London. consume Pachwai, prepared from rice and other grain in Bengal. In Nepaul a beer named Phaur, made from rice or wheat, is brewed much in the same manner as English ale, which it is said strongly to resemble. It is in con- siderable repute and, according to Hamilton,^ wheat^ India. The Hill- tribes of India commonly

•^ Der Bierbrauer, Prag. 1^74. 2 Hamilton's Account of NepauL