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A beer stein is a traditionally German Beer tankard or mug, made of Pewter , Silver , Wood , Porcelain , Earthenware or Glassware , and usually with a hinged lid and Lever ed thumblift. Lids, which technically distinguish a stein from a Mug , started out as a Sanitary Measure . During the summers of the late 1400s , central Europe was repeatedly overwhelmed with swarms of flies. This soon led several Principalities in what is now Germany to pass laws requiring food and beverage containers to be covered. By adding a hinged lid with a thumblift on the lid within reach of the mug handle, it was possible to keep a beverage covered and yet open it with the same hand by which it was held. The word "stein" is a truncated form of ''Steinzeugkrug'', which is German for stoneware jug or tankard. ''Stein'' in German means "rock" or "stone", and is not used to describe the same object. The German word is ''Maßkrug'', a Maß (German for "measure") being the amount of fluid that it contains (1.069 litres). EXTERNAL LINK AND REFERENCE
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