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  • Bavaria, not including the Rhenish Palatinate, uses over six million bushels of barley, and upwards of seven million pounds of hops, annually, in its breweries, making over eight million eimers, that is, about five million barrels of beer.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

  • Allowing three hundred working-days to the year, this would be four hundred and thirty eimers, or twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty masses, per day, and would pay to the government, at one kreutzer per mass, one hundred and eighty dollars of our money for each of these working-days, or fifty-four thousand dollars yearly.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

  • The quantity manufactured in this city alone in 1856-7 was nine hundred and fifty thousand eimers, or about five hundred and seventy thousand barrels, being nearly five barrels a head for the whole population, men, women, and children.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

  • Ledlmayr, the largest brewer in Munich, made in the year 1856 -- the latest statistics published -- one hundred and twenty-nine thousand eimers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

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