The Brauer Family A History of Einbeck Beer and the Lutheran Religion

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THESIS G In the middle ages, when it was seen more as liquid food than a pleasure drink, beer and religion were closely linked, and few families have personified this connection more than my mother’s, the Brauers.

Ernest Richard Brauer Pastor Ernest Brauer Pastor Albert Henry Brauer Pastor Ernest August Brauer Pastor/Brewer George Heinrich Brauer Brewer/Senator Gerhard Friedrich Brauer Brewer/Senator Johann Jurgen Brauer Brewer Hans Johann Brauer Brewer/Senator Jost Brauer Brewer Barthold Brauer Brewer Barthold Brauer Brewer/Senator Heinrich Brauer Brewer Berend Brauer Head Brewmaster

Ernest August Brauer  "Nordheim is a spiritually bankrupt city. I never heard of any family that still used Family Devotion or table prayers. I knew of only one family where religious materials were ever read. Pastors made no calls on the sick or the dying, and no sermons were preached at funerals ” ( Schuricht family).

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Berend Brauer G Born 1500 in Einbeck, Germany G Headbrewmaster for the Einbeck Brauhaus AG G Einbeck accepted into the Hanseatic League G Born 1500 in Einbeck, Germany G Headbrewmaster for the Einbeck Brauhaus AG G Einbeck accepted into the Hanseatic League

Hanseatic League G The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period (c.13th ﾐ 17th centuries). The Hanseatic cities had their own law system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. (Hanseatic League)alliancetradingguildsmonopolyNorthern EuropeBalticNorth SeaLate Middle AgesEarly modern periodc.13th 17th G The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period (c.13th ﾐ 17th centuries). The Hanseatic cities had their own law system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. (Hanseatic League)alliancetradingguildsmonopolyNorthern EuropeBalticNorth SeaLate Middle AgesEarly modern periodc.13th 17th

Hanseatic League

Martin Luther G Father and namesake of the Lutheran religion G Transcribed the Bible so it was more accesible to the common man G Excommunicated from Catholicism in 1521 G Father and namesake of the Lutheran religion G Transcribed the Bible so it was more accesible to the common man G Excommunicated from Catholicism in 1521

Martin Luther  Frederick Salem, in his Beer, Its History and Its Economic Value as a National Beverage (1880) notes, "Luther's fondness for beer is well known, and on the evening of that eventful day at Worms, April 18, 1521, the Duke Erich von Braunschweig sent him a pot of Einbeck beer, to which he was specially addicted, and Luther said ‘ The best drink known to man is called Einbeck Beer ’”

Martin Luther G Also, Michael Jason, in his New World Guide to Beer (1988), notes that Luther received a gift of Einbeck beer upon his request on the occasion of his wedding. Lutheran scholar Luther Peterson recalls a visit to a restaurant in Einbeck where he found a beer coaster with portraits of Martin and Katie on one side and a tale about their receiving a barrel of Einbeck beer as a wedding present.

Food not Entertainment G Being drunk was severely looked down upon.  "God does not forbid you to drink, he permits you to drink wine and beer: he does not make a law of it. But do not make a pig of yourself; remain a sober being." G Was designed by monks as “liquid bread” to sustain life while fasting. G During Plague times, a much safer (sterilized) alternative to water G Being drunk was severely looked down upon.  "God does not forbid you to drink, he permits you to drink wine and beer: he does not make a law of it. But do not make a pig of yourself; remain a sober being." G Was designed by monks as “liquid bread” to sustain life while fasting. G During Plague times, a much safer (sterilized) alternative to water

King Fredrick II of Prussia  "His Majesty. when a youth. was brought up with beer-soup, which is more wholesome than coffee. Accordingly, people over there can just as well be brought up with beer-soup ” ( Schuricht family).

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