1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

BEER.

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to that time the English drank beer resembling the so- called " Convent Beer " of Germany. In the second half of our century the breweries changed into beer factories. The increasing prosperity after the close of the Napoleonic wars and the founda- tion of duty-treaties between the different states in- creased the riches of the nations and were of enormous influence upon the quality and demand of beer. At present the Bavarian beer is thought to be the best, and the methods followed there are accepted in the greater part of Europe except England and the in North America and Aus- tralia, nay, even in Turkey, the inhabitants of which country congratulate themselves that in Mohammed's time nothing was known concerning brewing, or Mo- hammed certainly would have prohibited his followers from enjoying this beverage as well as the wine, i Bismarck, " The Man of Blood and Iron," made once the remark: "Beer renders people stupid." But the same man did not hesitate to use and enjoy it himself, espe- cially at his receptions of the members of the Reichstag in the Chancellor's Palace, and we still await reports that the use of beer has badly affected his mental ca- pacities. During the last three decades new rivals to the Ba- varian beer have arisen in Austria, at Schwechat and at Pilsen, and last, but not kast, in the great brewing centres of the New World. The world-wide importance beer has won is best specific wine countries