'HOME-BREW' MAKERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 195, 31 May 1934, Page 8

'HOME-BREW' MAKERS

DECLINING AT AUCKLAND.

(Special to the " Guardian.") AUCKLAND; May 29. Tha manufacture in Auckland of

"home-brew" has decreased by 50 to

75 per cent, in the past year, according to retailers who sell the ingredients and appliances used by amateur bear-

About two years ago, when homebrewing became a popular pastime, it was judged by certain prophets to be but a passing craze, and events appear to have proved that judgment true. "It became *a cult with some people/ said one. retailer, when remarking that his sales of ingredients had fallen ' away- drastically. "It was almost a religion. It was worse than golf. They talked about nothing else. If there 'was the slightest variation in the colour or appearance some of them were so upset they could not sleep. Others abused the weather. Now we do not hear a word about it." Sellers of bottling appliances agreed that the did enthusiasm had wanetl to but a flicker. "The theory was,; said one "that a man would make his own beer and save money on his hotel calls. In practice, however, he found himself drinking at.home as well as m hotels, and began, to realise that he was dunkin"- more than he wanted. He gave up" his home-brew. It was not surprising I for one never tasted any homebrew as good as the beer I could buy.