p. 304 | "Pure" Beer by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 19.

"Pure" Beer.

By Editor

THE California brewers are now agitated. At a recent meeting of the Brewers' Association—

"It was represented that Rev. Dr. Munhall had said that the California brewers used impurities in manufacturing beer. This was held to be a gross slander, and Dr. Munhall was thought to be working in the interest of the Eastern breweries. A committee consisting of Messrs. Hansen, Denicke, and Wreden was appointed to obtain legal advice in the matter, with power to act."

Don't laugh; this is a serious matter. Of course Dr. Munhall must be the paid agent of the Eastern breweries, because he doesn't believe in drinking beer at all! Our "industries" must be protected. We have never seen any California beer, and do not know how it is made. Possibly the brewers of this State are models of virtue. At any rate we shall never accuse them of adulterating their beer, for we don't believe it would be an easy matter for them to concoct a drink that would be more abominable and would make more drunkards than the stuff that they call pure beer. It is not necessary to even appear to slander beer; the truth is damaging enough.