Beer and America

American Heritage ^ | July 2002 | Max Rudin

[Slip18]

Just had a guess all of you would be in here somewhere.

[Gabz]

I think you need a reality check - I expect you to get my beer - not the other way around.

I thought we had that situation straightened out????

[maxwell]

Hey chickie, just in time! Coors and Mich, a case each, and some nachos. And some onion rings. And maybe some cheese whiz or something. And I'm running out of smokes already. Seems like I just went to the store the other day...

[Gabz]

Now why would you think that of us?????

[maxwell]

I thought we had that situation straightened out????

Huh??? I'm YOUR beer-b!tch?

That's OK... Anything for a chick of your caliber... I think I'll just grovel here at yer feet for a while again...

I see London, I see France... Woooo!

[NeoCaveman]

Just had a guess all of you would be in here somewhere.

Of course, this where the beer is.

[Slip18]

I'll hit the store right now. Let's see Cheese Whiz, Coors, Mich and onion rings? Be back in a shake of a lamb's tail.

[maxwell]

I'll hit the store right now. Let's see Cheese Whiz, Coors, Mich and onion rings? Be back in a shake of a lamb's tail.

Look at THIS, angel. See this? Huh? Now THAT'S a lady for ya.

[E Rocc]

The irony was that Prohibition torpedoed a century of temperance campaigning. Since the Civil War the consumption of spirits had declined as beer became more popular. Prohibi tion changed that, driving people away from beer and toward spirits, which carried a higher profit margin for bootleggers. Samuel Eliot Morison recalled that “college students who before Prohibition would have a keg of beer and sit around singing the ‘Dartmouth Stein Song’ and “Under the Anheuser Busch,’ now got drunk quickly on bathtub gin, and could manage no lyric more complicated than ‘How Dry Am I!’” Heywood Broun dubbed the Volstead Act “a bill to discourage the drinking of good beer in favor of indifferent gin.” Worse, there were dangerous grumblings. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor fumed that Prohibition was a class law directed against the beer of the workingman, since wealthy people had laid in supplies of wine before the ban and were the only ones who could afford to drink in speakeasies.

Nothing's funnier than seeing stodgy busybodies have their campaigns backfire. One of the best things that could have ever happened in American history would have been if some saloonkeeper had plugged Carrie Nation right between her beady eyes.

4. Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold has a grainy dryness in addition to the big maltiness that characterizes all beers from this brewery, in Cleveland, Ohio. The Gold is one of the few lagers to model itself on the firm-bodied, minerally style of Dortmund, Germany. The brewery also has an amber red, yet maltier, Vienna-style lager, named Eliot Ness. There are bullet holes from his era in the brewery’s restaurant, formerly the Market Tavern.

Both Great Lakes and its competitor Crooked River have several excellent brands that are highly recommended when visiting here.

The bullet holes are pre-Ness, who came here after Prohibition was over. The Volstead Act was basically ignored in Cleveland anyway, except for the fact that organized crime rather than legitimate business ran the alcohol trade.

-Eric

[Slip18]

I'm good for three out of four. What's a Mich?

Enjoy, Baby!

[NeoCaveman]

Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold has a grainy dryness in addition to the big maltiness that characterizes all beers from this brewery, in Cleveland, Ohio. The Gold is one of the few lagers to model itself on the firm-bodied, minerally style of Dortmund, Germany.

Dortmunder Gold is good stuff.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Dammit...now I gotta hit the liquor store on my way home from work! You guys made me thirsty ... A Bass or two and all will be right with the world.

[Slip18]

This one's for you, Gabz!

She's quite a prolific smoker.

[xsmommy]

OMG, LMAO, slip!

[Slip18]

Here's a better one! I'm home with the 'bot today. He's turning me on to different sites to find humerous photos.

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[xsmommy]

leave it to a teen to know where to find this stuff!

[Tony in Hawaii]

They brought the technology, but they were out of the actual product.

[another cricket]

Maybe they ran out ... ?

They did.

a.cricket

[ppaul]

With Women's Suffrage came Prohibition.
One bad idea spawned another.