DEER AND BEER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13949, 4 January 1906, Page 10

DEER AND BEER.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —J am glad to see that an outsider has had the courage to open out n subject that should have been ventilated years ago. In England, or, say, Great Britain, things would not bo tolerated as they are here. You cannot, in the first place, find twenty brewers in the whole of New Zealand. They are either pro-cartere, barrelwashers, or coopers. It has fallen to ’ my lot to have had such men in my ( employ, who have loft me and got posi- - ti-ons as brewers. They absolutely don’t | know the “weight” of lbs per barrel contained in the copper, nor do they know from the specific gravity, the amount of yeast, to be used; nor can they explain- what is fermentation. I have had to brew in New Zealand breweries that no English sanitary authorities would allow for a pigstye. I say that if dairies are so strictly watched, then twenty times more so should the “ fermenting room ” of a brewery be watched-. Then again, there are the small fry, who use every ingredient tinder tno ’sun, and there is no stoppage to it. And I could fTiention one or two large breweries. I advise the people to get their beer and stout from a firm of good reputation, and there are three I could mention, but refrain, as you might think it is as an advertisement I am writing. Anyway, it is time breweries and some hotels were inspected under the Food and Drug Act.—l am, etc., G. ATHEY, Alember of the Brewers’ Association. (Gold medallist, London, 1888).