[Dixielandjazz] Belgian Beer

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Quite apart from my Jack Teagarden and Hoagy Carmichael allusions, I do remember the magnificent off-pitch unison singing (if that is the word) mostly on one note, but with decorative yodels, of Pete Brown and other members of the band with Frankie Newton, celebrating the Onyx Club and beginning 

"come with me and smoke some tea...  " 
which is not about preparing or drinking Lapsang Souchong 


Having spent a long time in Germany I am aware of legends concerning the strange things can be in Belgian beer, and certainly Hoegarden is brewed with wheat and flavoured with coriander. 
Maize is the basis of some other brews. Not to mention cherries....
I do envy Marek his stewed black tea and his strong coffee.  Alas my quirky innards!

The drummer Kenny Clare was noted for travelling Europe always with a teapot and his own supply of drinking-tea. At a gig some time ago I was introduced to an octogenarian saxophonist drinking from his vacuum flask of tea during the intermission. I mentioned the Kenny Clare teapot, and he said he'd worked in bands with Kenny in the 1940s, and worked much more recently with young men fond of hi-tech drinks, and unlike him always complaining of thirst.  

Skol, prost, sante, slainte!
Robert 




You are ofcourse right re. the spelling - the way I speeled it it would have been pronounced "Hooharden" rather than Hoeharden (why the G is pronounced H rather than CH I have no idea).
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>As to tea - I believe that six big cups of pitch-black tea a day is enough, and that's what I usually drink - two with each meal.  But only at home, since I still brew my tea the old way: put leaves in a teapot, a teaspoon for each cup, keep it over boiling water for at least 10 minutes, often longer, let it brew a bit more, and then drink it strong, aromatic and unsweetened.  A spoilt brat.  At jazz evening I drink very string coffee (how can one sleep well withoug a good dose of coffeine (or theine)?
>Cheers
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>On 9 May 2013 22:17, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>The drink (ichor Belgarum) Marek refers to is properly spelled
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>>HOEGARDEN
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>>which reminds me of the Al Grey line about an English friend prevailed upon by
>>his wife to use a lawn-mower, and injured in the process.
>>Al of course said that the man shouldn't have been mowing a lawn, he being a
>>musician.  Mrs. Humphrey Lyttelton was reported as unimpressed by an attempt
>>to plead exemption on the same grounds.
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>>Marek's mis-spelling
>>HOAGARDEN is however not reprehensible.  In saying so I risk accusations
>>of trying to take the Carmichael,  but who am I to suggest that Marek Jack
>>in the beer-drinking and stick to Tea .....
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>>The old ones are the best
>>and those too young may make nothing of the above bag of antiques
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>>Robert
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