An interesting article highlighting just how much beer Germans used to drink in the 1800s….this from The Atlantic:
But some drink none, others little; a man is scarcely reckoned with real beer-drinkers until he drinks six masses, twenty-four of our common tumblers; ten masses are not uncommon; twenty to thirty masses -- eighty to one hundred and twenty of our dinner-glasses -- are drunk by some, and on a wager even much more.
To translate this into numbers that you might be familiar with, here's a concordance:
- 6 masses = 16 cans of beer
- 10 masses = 27 cans
- 20 masses = 53 cans
- 30 masses = 80 cans
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