The Poor Man’s Beer.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 1, 6 January 1909, Page 49

The Poor Man’s Beer.

Beer drinkers will be glad to know from an answer given in Parliamentary papers that no arsenic is now' used in the composition of beer, but almost everything else known to the Pharmacopoeia is made use of by some unscrupulous brewers, remarks a London newspaper. Here is the Chancellor's list of articles —euphemistically called "brewers’ substitutes”—used in addition to the orthodox malt, hops, sugar, yeast, and water: Rice, flaked liee. rice grits, rice malt, gelatinised rice. Maize, flaked maize, maize grits, maize flour. Cats, flaked, rolled, malted, and crushed. Torrefied barley. Yeast foods, such as nutramide. pop torn ide, dallinc. mixtures of malt flour and alkaline phosphates, common salt, and preparations of malt combings. Preservatives, like sulphites of soda and potash—sold under various trade names, as kalium metasulphite, sulphosite. etc.—salic.vlie and boracie acids.

•’Burton isem” (substances used for hardening brewing waters) like sit! phate* and chlorides of calcium anti magnesium. Neutralisers— lainly car Inmates <>f potash and soda, sold under various trade names. is regenerator, acid lieu trali>er. antacid, etc. Hop substitutes, such as catechu or cutch, tannin, extrait de houblons d’AI sace, < ptanin. and quassia. Preparations used to precipitate albuminous matters from wort, mainly gela tine. Iceland moss. Irish moss, alginol, and ibrite. Albumen maltose, linseed, liquorice amide syrup, and dextrin.