[Dixielandjazz] BEER

[Tony Davis]

I'll certainly give good beer its due, Robert - returning from the 
JazzSea Cruise via Newark airport, Jude and I were delighted to find 
that there was a Sam Adams brewery just a few yards from our boarding 
gate - and it wasn't a mirage.  What's more they were serving a darkish 
seasonal brew which was wonderful, one of the best I've tasted in the US.

That 'formerly noble' British beer you mention - would that be Tetley's, 
by any chance?

Tony Davis.


ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:
> 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!  
>