GERMAN BEER
NEW DRINK WITHOUT ALCOHOL Germans have begun drinking nonalcholic beer as a beverage that can quench their thirsts and even be consumed at work “without detrimental effects.” An idea attributed to Adolf Hitler and converted into reality by German chemists, it has just begun to flow from thousands of beer-taps. How it is brewed is a secret, but it looks like beer, tastes like beer and contains the same ingredients—except the alcohol. The new beverage, production of which has been fixed temporarily at 1,000,000,000 gallons a year, is said to fill a gap left by wartime restrictions and rationing ol coffee substitutes, milk and tea. Nazi press advocates say the basic idea was to create a “common beverage” which is “appetising, has the stimulating effects of beer and quenches the thirst without possessing the tiring influence of alcohol.” It is delivered in ordinary wooden kegs and flows from the tap carbonated like real beer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 2
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156GERMAN BEER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 2
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