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Show Beer "Real" At 3 PerCent " When the Inst Congress was urged to modify the Volstead Vol-stead act to permit the sale of beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content, a number of ardent wets opposed the move on the ground that such bem- would not be "real" beer, and hence would not satisfy the hordes of thirsty. It was suggested that, to be palatable to a devoted beer drinker, the beverage must contain no less than 6 or 7 per cent of alcohol. Now comes Colonel Jacob Ruppert, formerly one of the country's leading brewers, to explain that the best beer in the old days had an alcoholic content of just 3 per cent The proposed 2.75 per cent beer would fall short of that, ' but not as far short as a lot of people tried to tell us And r-ven the 3 per cent variety, it is safe to say, would fall below be-low the kicking capacity of most of the needled alley beer that gets on the market these days. |