I had a "Black Hops" beer this weekend from the local microbrewery. That was mighty tasty. It was a hot date with a lovely lady. She was not impressed with the taste of the dark beer.
Maybe with good reason.....
I understand that Dark Beer, aka Porter, is called Porter because that's who orignally drank it. As the story goes, in days of yore, sometimes the brewery would overcook [something] and that would turn the beer dark. The gentry who the beer was being brewed for wouldn't touch it, so they gave it, or sold it cheap, to the guys who carried stuff at/for the brewery, the porters.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
Ahhhh....the Souse family.
"The Souse family is the best family
That ever came over from old Germany.
There's the high land Dutch
And the low land Dutch
The Rotterdam Dutch
And the G-D Dutch.
Singin' Glorious
Glorious
One keg of beer for the four of us.
Singin' Glory be to God
That there are no more of us
For one of us could drink it all alone."
One of the verses is....
"The Dutch girl's tittie
Is the Dutch boy's pride
Instead of milk
There is beer inside!
Singing glorious..."
Final verse starts out:
"They had to carry Harry to the Ferry
.
.
.
Harry couldn't carry anymore.
Damn Beer"
College drinking song, songwriter unknown.
Apologies, Cor!
Last edited by W1GUH; 09-13-2011 at 10:21 AM.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
Beer: Because Dogs Like To get dog drunk too.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/do...asted-too.html
Porter was the working man's drink but it wasn't a mistake or accident, it was less alcoholic than lighter beers and more nourishing. I'm looking at the days when food in crowded towns and cities wasn't really a balanced diet. Sometimes the water available to the public was suspect so beer was safer (take note). Weak beer was served at well-known schools at breakfast too as part of the diet.