Luther on Lager Beer

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 20, 1875

Luther on Lager Beer.

In Luther's "table talk" we find the following opinion on lager beer: "The man who first brewed beer was a pest to Germany. Food must be dear in our land, for the horses eat up all the oats, and peasants and citizens drink up all the barley in the form of beer. I have survived the end of genuine beer, for it has now become small beer in every sense, and I have prayed to God that he might destroy the whole beer-brewing business, and the first brewer I have often cursed. There is enough barley destroyed in the breweries to feed all Germany."