ADULTERATION OF BEER. TO THE EDITON.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1904, Page 5

ADULTERATION OF BEER. TO THE EDITON.

Sir, — Your correspondent "Moderator' has touched a subject which should be o! interest to all beer-drinkprs. Qood ale, as I understand it, should not hurt ant one— properly brewed it is even a whole ' some drink for children ; but the horrtblt concoction sold in many Wellington ho tels as beer is, as your correspondent very correctly remarks, absolutely unnt for human consumption. Some few months ago I went into a certain hotel and askea for a "long beer," which 1 endeavoured to drink, but my stomach absolutely refused to keep it down, and I suffered the agonies of sea sickness I tried this hotel again, with the same result; and as I am interested in beer 1 bought three pints in separate hottles I two of which I sent to two dif ferent analytical chemists in Australi* for analysis. I Can only say that nevci in the wildest nights of my imagination could I hare thought that such a com position would be allowed to be offered to' the public as a wholesome drinit. New Zealand should be able to produce malt and hops equal to English, and these ingredients alono compose beor any other substance is adulteration. .1 noticed in a certain paper an advertise ment: "Wanted, a first-class brewer: must bo a good cheinisi." .What fur.

ther comment is necessary? Let our Health Department cause to be collected draugM beer from various hotels, and unbrnit them to analysis, and I yenturo to think that wero the result given to the public there would be such an outcry as would show these brewers that it is silly to kill the goose, etc. — I am, «tc, AN OLD BREWER. Wellington, 14th October. '