On beer : a statistical sketch / by M. Vogel.

  • Vogel, Max.
Date:
1874
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Credit: On beer : a statistical sketch / by M. Vogel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guild in Louvain in the form of a monopoly that they alone might brew beer within the circumference of a league from the city. There are many sayings, especially in South Germany, about Gambrinus ; but it is likely, as Grasse supposes, that a Duke of Burgundy may have been the prototype of Gambrinus. Grasse tells us that the learned historian T. Chifflet, in his “ Lilium Francium ” (Antv. 1658, in fol.) —a kind of glorification of the fleur-de-lis (p. 80)—copies a drawing of an order of Burgundy, the Or do lupuli, or order of the hop, and says that it owed its establish- ment to Jean Sa7is-peur, Duke of Burgundy, when by inheritance he became first Count of Flanders. It is probable that the order originated in 1406 when the Duke courted the good opinion of his Flemish sub- jects, to whom the cultivation of hops was a source of great benefit, and that it ended with the death of its founder. The name of Beer seems to have puzzled for a long time the ingenuity of scholars who attempted many etymological explanations, more or less probable. There is now no doubt that it is derived from the old Saxon word here, which meant barley j and it was called Pior in old German, Baer and Alod in Anglo-Saxon, Oel in Danish, Hell in Scottish, and Olio in Sclavonish. The Poles and Bohemians named it Zyto, also Pivo : in
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