"Dave Witzel" wrote in message
"Douglas W. Hoyt" wrote on 13 Oct 2003:
Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer
dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and
a more ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Snrf. Boy howdy, that's...what's the word? Sad? With all the decent
to FG beers coming to the event, they're serving food paired with SA
Cherry Wheat? Michelob Black & Tan?? Leinenkugal [sic] Red??? I guess
Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or the chefs
don't normally have access to good beer.

Joe (Don Russell) is in touch with the common man -- he's a pretty much
unassuming kind of guy, not given to putting on airs; he actually writes for
the Philly Daily News, not the Inky (that's INquirer, Doug!) -- but I
seriously doubt he would have selected those beers. I've broken bread with
him at Monk's on a number of occasions, and he definitely has a taste for
the finer beers. Having been the victim of things like this in the past, I'd
conjecture that Don agreed to do it, and THEN the beer-ignorant chefs picked
the beers. Probably by the labels or by the advice of the local beer sales
twerps.

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