BEER DRINKING IN BAVARIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1840, 15 November 1884, Page 2

BEER DRINKING IN BAVARIA.

Statistics showing the capacity op Bavaria's able-bodied citizen. In a report on the history and present condition of the beer business of Bavaria, Consul flortsman says:— " There are in Bavaria about 5,480 breweries, using in the aggregate 14,802,500 bushels of male, which are converted into about 9,970,000 barrels of beer. Of these breweries, 5,053 are owned by private persons, 19 are joint companies, 457 belong to communities, and 51 sell all their beer to the consumer on the premises; 411 breweries are worked by steam power, 354 by animal power, and the rest partly by water power and partly by hand. '•The largest breweries are in the capital; the principal one of these (Brauerei ?utn Spaten) used in 1881 372,400 bushels of malt. Next in rank are four establishments using from 140,000 to 252,000 bushels each. Of the remaining 5,475 breweries in Bavaria only 130 use more than 14,000 bushels annually, and of these last, eleven are in Munich. There are, farther, 1,1000 breweries consuming from 2,800 to 14,090 bushels of malt, and 4,239 breweries using less than 2,300 bushels each. "Most of the beer produced in Bavaria is consumed in the country itself, only about 7 per cent ot the whole production being exported. The principal cities taking part in this export—which is chiefly to Germany, France, and the United States—are Munich, Kuimbach, Nuremberg, and Erlangon." The Consul supplies a tabular statement of the quantities of beer consumed annually per capital in various countries and says:—

" It will thus be seen that Bavaria takes the lead of all nations in its consumption of beer. It is quite natural that the chief characteristics of a nation should culminate at its capital, and Munich outbeers all Bavaria, the annual consumption there reaches the enormous figure of 470 quarts to each person, or about 1 1-3 quarts daily; whereas in the United States only about one-tenth of a quart is the daily requirement per person, thus showing that the Munich men drink thirteen times as much as one of our citizens, In order to understand this great consumption of beer in Bavaria, it must be explained that the people I begin drinking it from the cradle up. I It is looked upon not as a stimulant or a mere delicacy, but as a necessary article of nourishment for the body, "It is often styled the "liquid bread' of the labourer, who generally takes beer for breakfast, Beer is drunk all the year round, and every hour of the day and night." THOUGHT IT WAS THE OATS -Vr—♦——— "Tf I can find my gun I bet I'll settle them oats," said Mulberry the other night at a late hour, as he slid out of bed and went groping about in the room in the dark, " Come baok to bed, you old fool," pleaded the gentle voice .of Mra Mulberry, "That isn't cats; it's Emeline's new beau down in the parlor singing 'Sweet Violets.'" Emeline's new beau will not warble any more when he visits Emeline, Emeline has told him that " papa is very easily disturbed after he has retired," Thick heads.—Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions-" Wells' May Apple Pills "-antibilious, cathartic 6d aad Is. N.Z, Drug Co.