| "Here and There" by Clay Moore and Jay Silvers We've just returned from a short tip to London. We drank a lot of beer in a lot of places. One night after more than our share of pints we were motivated to recite our favorite piece from Ian Robb as we stood on a chair in the middle of the bar. The proprietor, in tears, bought the house a round. Like us, he had more than a few pints. Here's the sad tale: Good friends gather 'round and we'll tell you a tale It's an old story well known to all lovers of ale For the old English pub, once a man's second home Has been decked out, by brewers, in plastic and chrome Oh what has become of the Old Rose and Crown, The Ship, the King's Arms, and the World Upside-Down? For oak, brass and leather and a pint of the best Fade away like the sun as it sinks in the west. The old oaken bar where the pumps filled your glass Gives way to formica and tanks full of gas; And the landlord behind, once a man of good cheer Will just mumble the price as he hands you your beer And where are the friends who would meet for a jar And a good game of darts in the old public bar? For the dartboard is gone; inn its place is a thing Where you pull on a handle and lose all your tin But the worst of it all is what they've done to the beer, For their shandies and lager will make you feel queer For an arm and a leg they will fill up your glass With a half-and-half mixure of ullage and gas. So come all you good fellows that likes to sup ale, Let's hope for a happier end to my tale, For there's nothing can fill a man's heart with more cheer Than to sit in a pub with a pint of good beer! ------------------ Three unusual beers we've seen recently: Angel City Brewery's Avocado Ale, Spirulina Wit Beer by Free Tail Brewing Co., and Kelpie Seaweed Ale by Williams Bros Brew. Three unusual beer related items we've seen recently: 50 Caliber Bullet Corkscrew Bottle Opener, Sonic Foamer: Ultrasonic Beer Flavor Enhancer, and the ever popular (?) Russian Roulette Beer Bong. Google 'em if you don't believe us) . Ever notice how common it is for serious beer guys to have beard? Sorry guys but clean shaven gents get the most out of their pint. For example, in Great Britain alone, 93,000 liters of beer are rumored to be lost each year in facial hair. "Aplenty bahl steinber horn!” means “A really great beer!” in Boontling, a folk language developed by workers in the hop fields of California’s Anderson Valley. And for the record we love most of the beers from Anderson Valley Brewing. To pour a perfect pint of Guinness the company says you need to let it rest for exactly 119.5 seconds between the first pour and the top-up — a period called the surge and settle. Sumeria’s neighbors, the Egyptians, built the pyramids under the influence. Workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day. "A can of beer'd be the makin' of a guy a cold mornin' like this" John Dos Passos (He was probably just kidding)- "Beer has virtue only in giving its victims more of the good-natured-stupidity of the idiot and less of the demoniac frenzy of the madman" Lyman Beecher See you next month! |
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