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BEER.
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imported
into
the
south
and
north
of
Europe
by
the
Phenicians.
Greeks,
Romans,
and
Gauls
enjoyed
their
lager:
the
Romans
called
it,
uniformly
with
the
Gauls,
Cerevisia,
from
Ceres, the
goddess
of
field
fruits.
The
old
Saxons
and
Danes
were
extremely
fond
of
it,
and
counted
drunkenness
from
it
as
one
of
the
highest
re-
wards
awaiting
them
in
Walhalla,
their
Paradise,
where
reside
Odin's
heroes.
An
old
German
story
has
it
that
Gambrinus,
king
of
Brabant,
was
the
inventor
of
beer,
and
it
is
in
conse-
quence
of
this
that
the
brewers
revere
this
mythical
king
as
their
patron.
In
Germany,
beer
was
introduced
at
large
during
the
twelfth
and
thirteenth
centuries,
although
already
six
centuries
ago
we
find
the
beer
in
Germany
mentioned;
we
dare
not
omit
the
phrase
of
Tacitus
in
his
Germanis
that
the
Suevians
enjoyed
a
beverage
made
by
fermen-
tation
of
grain.
For
instance,
we
find
in
a
law
collection
of
the
"Ale-
mannians,
a
German
tribe
residing
on
both
sides
of
the
Rhine,
from
Basel
to
Mayence,
the
remark
that
every
one
belonging
to
any
parish
was
obliged
to
give
fifteen
gallons
of
beer
to
the
parson.
Charlemagne
also
here
did
not
underestimate
the
value
of
it;
for
he
called
the
best
brewers
to
his
court
and
also
gave
orders
how
to
brew.
Since
1482,
a
heavy
beer
has
been
made
in
the
mon-
asteries
of
Germany;
it
was
of
two
kinds,
a
better
qual-
ity for
the
Fathers
and
a
cheaper
one
for
the
convent.