Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-06-10 Public domain in the USA. 1896 Salem, F. W. (Frederick William) Salem, Frederick William 08028452 Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage $aHartford :$bF. W. Salem & Company, $c1880. Peter Becker, A Marshall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage" by F. W. Salem is a historical and economic treatise written in the late 19th century. It argues that pure, well-made beer is a temperate, healthful alternative to distilled spirits and should be supported by sensible regulation. The work combines history, brewing science, public policy, and social economics to advocate adopting beer as a national drink. The opening of the book presents a clear thesis—“Beer against whisky”—claiming prohibitory laws fail while accessible, pure beer advances true temperance. It then surveys beer’s long lineage from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome through medieval Europe: monastic brewing, early regulations, and famed beer centers and figures (such as the brewer-statesman Jacob van Artevelde, the folkloric Gambrinus, William Penn, and General Israel Putnam). A vivid picture follows of Renaissance drinking customs, notable beers (Eimbeck, Braunschweig Mumme), the Munich court brewery and bock, and the rise, dip, and revival of beer culture. The narrative shifts to modern policy, highlighting countries that promoted beer to curb spirits—Germany, Austro-Hungary, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Russia, France, England (the Beer Bill), and even Egypt, Japan, and Persia—arguing social order and public health improved as beer spread. It explains how beer is made, outlines its composition and nutritive value, and counters claims of adulteration with scientific reasoning and trade realities, including a brief Newark controversy and a correction of misattributed statements to Liebig. The section ends by noting that hops transformed the art of brewing and broadened beer styles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/beeritshistoryit00sale 20230219072918salem 1880 us Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Temperance Beer -- History Brewing industry -- United States -- History TP Text Category: History - Other Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Category: Politics Category: Economics 901198 2025-07-30T07:21:56.961613 text/html 867721 2025-06-10T07:15:37 text/html 3414502 2025-07-30T07:22:21.747496 application/epub+zip 3413677 2025-07-30T07:22:01.892611 application/epub+zip 421108 2025-07-30T07:21:59.212650 application/epub+zip 4026269 2025-07-30T07:22:29.677525 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3984453 2025-07-30T07:22:18.421510 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 569502 2025-07-30T07:21:50.795645 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 549450 2025-06-10T07:15:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13979 2025-07-30T07:22:29.902464 application/rdf+xml 20120 2025-07-30T07:21:59.733598 image/jpeg 2495 2025-07-30T07:21:59.475610 image/jpeg 3919713 2025-07-30T07:21:57.072680 application/octet-stream application/zip