[Dixielandjazz] BEER

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Sam Adams and some other splendid brews, I remember one I had at Birdland several years ago, are evidence that universal condemnation of United Sates beers is defamatory of some. 
I will admit that the first American beers I drank were watery, but at the time I was too young to be drinking them legally, and Henry Allen's name was on the board outside the Metropole in New York. 
I will grant that some British beers merit the scorn of Thommo the demon fast bowler of yore, not least a now custard-topped brew under a formerly noble name, a pint of which lost ichor the late Al Grey much relished in my company, but not all. Perhaps the quality of Sam Adams could be a harbinger of a less parochial and narrow sense of the outside world than currently obtains in some areas of the USA? 
Give good beer its due!  Cheers!  Prost!  Skol!  

       
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