Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — Great Flow of Beer. [ARTICLE]

Great Flow of Beer.

Beer is drank pretty freely in all parts of Germany, but in Munich it literally supersedes water, which is only used for boiling potatoes, washing dishes and making beer. As much beer as a person can drink can be had for 10 pfennigs, or about 2| cents, cold and sparkling, and it is not to be wondered at that everybody relies upon it, when good drinking water is so scarce, and if you put a lump of ice in it will cost as much money. A visit to the breweries, and beer gardens and tap-rooms of Munich would astonish the most inveterate beerdrinkers of Baltimore. It is sold at the breweries iD mugs holding about as much as four ordinary glasses, so great is the demand that of au evening when the spigot of a fresh barrel is turned it is never stopped unlit the barrel is empty. We have seen five barrels thus running at one time in a large establishment, the mugs being filled with remarkable dexterity. It is used in every family as a part of the daily food, young and old partaking of it with all the freedom that we use water. They contend that it is healthy and much less injurious than coffee, and that as few persons injure themselves by drinking it to excess as others do by drinking too much coffee. —Letter from Germany. A Connecticut plow factory is making 5,000 plows, to fill an order from South America.