Beer : its history and its economic value as a national beverage / by F. W. Salem.

  • Salem, F. W. (Frederick William)
Date:
1880, ©1879
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Credit: Beer : its history and its economic value as a national beverage / by F. W. Salem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    beer-brewers and for beer. Beer was une boisson de commun. The beautifully ornamented mugs and beakers were put away in the lumber-room (rumpel-kammer') and cham- pagne glasses from Paris took their place. At evening, where formerly the jovial barons and their chief followers had encamped round the carved-oak table and laid a strong grasp on the mug—there was now a service of cakes and tea, and where formerly milk and pepper or beer was used as a morning draught, the coffee breakfast constantly ac- quired more use and repute. The common people, how- ever, stood fast for the old way, and were never better pleased than when the privileged beer came to honor. At this time, too, the change of roles took place, and South Germany entered on its new and important course at the beginning of the present century. (The brewery at St. Marx was built in 1710, and in 1732 there were three brew- houses at Schwechat.) It is as if the minds of men slumbered long, only to come at once into a never suspected activity. In the midst of the tumult we find Balling, Dreher, Sedlmayer, Kaiser, Otto and man}' others. Everything in brewing is changed. Laboratories spring out of the ground and discoveries and inventions come in countless numbers, brewing journals are started, schools opened, fairs and associations multiply, and all in the space of a single half century.