WHAT IS BEER?

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 4

WHAT IS BEER?

A pint of strong ale, on careful analysis, was found to contain :—: — 18£ ounces of water 2 ounces of alcohol 1 ounce and 186 grains of sugar 57 grains of acetic acid This was a pint of the best ale that could be bough*, and tbe very small proportions of nutriment found in just over an ounce of sugar must be put against the two ounces of deadly poison which is fouad with iK BEEU SUPPLIES NO FOKCF, But it wastes the stored up energy of the body. The average daily diet for an adult man should contain stored-up force equal to raising 3940 tons one foot high. This force would be contained in the following foods, costing a few pence : — Bread, 18 ounces Butter, 1 ounce Milk, 4 ounces Bacon, 2 ounces Potatoes, 8 ounces Cabbage, 6 ounces Sugar, 1 ounce Upon this diet a man could live and have vigorous health, but if he wanted to live, on " flourishing stout," he would have to swallow 180 pints per day in order to get the same amount of food, and this would cost him 455. We would do well to remember that it takes &ix pounds of good barley to make a gallon of beer, and that the nutriment in the six pounds of barley is FIFTY-FIVE TIMES * greater than in the gallon of beer. The food that is in the barley is destroyed in the process ot manufacture by conversion into yeast, alcohol, and carbonic acid gas, all of which are poisons.