On 1/4/2014 10:39 AM, zxcvbob wrote:
> On 1/4/2014 1:56 AM, Christopher Helms wrote:
>> On Friday, January 3, 2014 9:25:21 PM UTC-6, Hench wrote:
>>> Yummy.
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>>>
>>>
>>> It's how beer was flavoured back in northern parts of Blighty a century
>>>
>>> or 2 ago. In my 20 years of drinking all manner of beers and brewing
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>>> them as well, it's the first time I've had beer flavoured with treacle.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It carries a hint of bitterness to remind you to respect it. Oddly
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>>> enuf, a century ago it was used to cheapen porters and ales now it's a
>>>
>>> premium brew.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes certain cheap foods will develop a large enough following
>> that people will forget that they were once bottom shelf items.
>
>
> Pabst Blue Ribbon.
>
> Bob

I once visited Schaefer brewery in New York and the manager showing us
around was quite emphatic that Pabst had never *won* a blue ribbon.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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