BREWING

is extracting saccharine from malt, and converting the solution into a fermented alcohol. The excellence of Burton beers depends mainly on the water, which contains lime and magnesia in large quantities. The chief Lager, or 4 store ’ beer, breweries are in Germany and Austria, e.g. Pilsen, Vienna, Munich. The largest brewing busine in the world is probably that of the Me rs. Guinne at Dublin, which paid excise duty in 1893 to the amount of,£544.709. It covers about 50 acres, and employs 1600 men. The Ba Company paid in 1889 only . £332,000 excise duty, though their works cover 150 acres, on which they have 16 miles of private railway. They have the largest store-houses in the world, and use 150 million labels a year, mid employ 2600 men. The Allsopp Brewery covers 50 acres, and that of