On beer : a statistical sketch / by M. Vogel.

  • Vogel, Max.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On beer : a statistical sketch / by M. Vogel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Norway breweries, and must premise by stating that exact figures are the more difficult to get at, as brewing for private use in Norway is entirely free from any tax. It appears then,^ that there is much private brewing carried on at the farmyards in the “ Chapter ’’ of Bergen (especially in Hardanger, Sogn, and the countries of Vors or Worsgeleien), in Nordland and the inner moun- tain-dales, likewise in several parts of the “ Chapter” of Drontheim, as well as in those countries that lie at some distance from the common roads and water-ways. The brewings usually take place at Christmas-time, at weddings and funerals, and of weak beer for hay- making and harvest-time when the cattle are far away on the Alps, and there is no sweet milk to be had in the lowlands. There are besides professional breweries in Norway, which brew beer after the Bavarian fashion of low fermentations. “ They put it on a par,” says Grasse’s informant, “ with the best Bavarian beer, but wrongly so; it tastes too much of the pitch of the tun (cask), has a disagreeable after-taste and too much alcohol, so that it readily causes congestions, and it is very strong.” There were in 1870-71, 42 working malting establish- ments in connection with 40 trade breweries. What quantity of beer they produced remains unknown, as the brewers keep this a secret. ^ Grasse, p. 102.