Augsburg

Augsburg - The Brewers of this city wash their coolers with great care, scrubbing them every week with Dutch rushes—the stalks of the equisetum hyemale ; but, notwithstanding this apparent regard to cleanliness, they have one practice which we, in this country, should not venture to imitate. Like the rest of their countrymen, they pitch their store-vats; but instead of waiting until the plaster is cold, they cleanse the fermented worts into the vats while the pitch is smoking and burning hot. It is this which gives the peculiar flavour by which the Augsburg beer is distinguished from that of all the rest of Bavaria.