LAGER BEER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 885, 21 February 1907, Page 21

LAGER BEER.

For many years it has been usual to associate the brewing of lager beer with Germany, and it is interesting and important to know that the great English firm of Messrs S. Allsopp and Sons, Ltd., Burton-on-Trent, has perfected arrangements for supplying the purest and finest lager beer than can be brewed, and that the sale of this product is increasing with such rapidity as to show promise of not only supplanting the imported articie in England, but of proving a very formidable rival in the field of export. This is large.y to be accounted for by the fact that the lager brewery which Messrs Allsopp added some two or three years ago to their already huge premises is undoubted.y the mos: extensive, modern, and complete in the United Kingdom, and the system adopted is similar to that of the best German breweries.

It is interesting to reca.l that Messrs Allsopp have been brewers of pale ale and stout for over 20 years, and some idea of the magnitude of the present establishment may be gathered from the fact that the works proper cover over 120 acres of ground, of which the new brewery or principal building alone covers 20 acres, and is the largest brewing building in the world. Some 20 miles of railway are required to connect the different parts of the establishment ; and in addition to the vast quantities of; ale supplied in cask, over 30,000,000 bottles are annua.ly delivered direct from the brewery, of which a considerable quantity finds its way abroad to all parts of the world.