"lager beer", 1850, 1855

[Laurence Horn]

This supports (if not definitively so) the claim
made by Yuengling that theirs is the oldest
American brewery, founded 180 years ago; their
"Traditional Lager" (not bad, as of three days
ago) would be an instance of the definition
below.  (The name is pronounced "YING-ling",
whence the frequent assumption by auslanders that
it's Chinese, but it's actually respelled
American-style from the original "Jüngling"
family name.

LH

At 11:18 AM -0400 6/20/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>For "lager beer", the OED has 1852 (a dictionary definition), then 1858.
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>North American and United States Gazette, (Philadelphia, PA)
>Saturday, March 02, 1850; Issue 16,869; col H   [19th Century U.S. Newspapers]
>
>The March of Malt. ... Most probably this is for the brewing of the
>celebrated Lager Beer, which has now such unprecedented popularity in
>Philadelphia.
>
>[The 1849 quotation from the "North American and United States
>Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) Wednesday, November 21, 1849; Issue
>16,784; col I" is "Lager beer house", thus not "lager beer" but "beer
>house".  There are also two very slightly earlier hits, Feb. 28 and
>March 1, 1850 -- but these are given as full pages of advertisements
>without any highlighting that I see, and I'll be d----d if I'll
>attempt to find them.]
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>Lithograph, Currier & Ives (Philadelphia, 1855), "The Follies of the
>Age, Vive la Humbug!!".  The Library Company of Philadelphia.   In
>Rael, Black Identity & Black Protest, 142.
>
>[Sign on flag.]  Lager beer, allowed to drink 48 glasses.
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>
>Joel
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