The most famous beer is perhaps the Pilsener, or white beer, from Pilsen in Bohemia, the favourite drink in Vienna. Gratzer is brewed from wheat malt. BAVARIA. The peculiar flavour of the Bavarian ale is perhaps a result of the very free use of pitch or resinous matters to protect the wood of the fermenting tun, but it seems more probable that it is due to the commixture of pine tops. _Schenk_ beer is draught beer, in contradistinction to _Lager_, or store beer. The one is drunk in summer, the other in winter. _Bock beer_[107] and _Salvator_, dark heavy kinds of stout, are both well known. _Kaiserslautern_ is the name of a famous brewage in Rhenish Bavaria. BELGIUM. White beers, the result of a mixture of oats and wheat, called _Walgbaert_ and _Happe_, were made in Brussels in the fifteenth century. _Roetbier_ and _Zwartbier_ were, as their names tell us, red and black beers. _Cuyte_ was at one time a favourite and aristocratic drink. It has since fallen from its high estate. There are some forty kinds of beer, at least, now manufactured in Brussels. The white beer of Louvain in South Brabant is the most esteemed; but an Englishman has described it as having the flavour of pitch, soapsuds and vinegar. The winter brew is termed _Faro_, the summer _Lambic_. The _Faro_ is by some said to be prepared from the strong _Lambic_ and a small beer called _Mars_. All Belgium beers, according to the opinion of some experts, have a certain stamp of vinosity. In addition to the _Lambic_ and _Faro_, which are distinguished in this particular, may be mentioned the _Uitzet_ of Flanders, the _Arge_, of Antwerp, and _Fortes-Saisons_ of the Walloons. The white sparkling beers of Louvain are the best of summer beers, they are succeeded by those of _Hougaerde_ and _Diest_. The brown beers of _Malines_ and the _Saison_ of _Liege_ possess good reports. Latterly the _Grisettes_ of _Gembloux_, the beer of _Dinant_, the _blonde_ of _Buiche_, and the ale of _Oppuers_ have been creditably mentioned. BORNEO.