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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11784, 23 August 1916, Page 1

ill JlOttjltf, 1 For some time past scarcity of grain has conjured up the dreadful prospect of a beer famine, and one may imagine the depression caused by the dark cloud that loomed over the head of the German beer-lover. Novr that has been reft asunder by an announcement in the "Munchester Neueste Nachrichten " that Professor Krailsheimer, Bavarian Minister for Agriculture, has discovered a substitute just in tho nick cf time. It is. o£ course, a "chemical" beer, and this is what the " Nachrichten : ' says of it:---" The new beverage rivuls m strength, flavour and stimulating properties the best Spat en or Loewen brews. It is a sparkling liquid of a light amber colour, the taste of which has been given an insatiable appetite for more and still more. Moreover, tho ingredient*, tho nature of which is, of course, Iwpt secret, but the principal of which is obtained by a process of distillation from turnips, are so simple and so easily found, that the • new beer can bo sold at less than a third of the cost of the ordinary pro- ! duct in normal peace time."