Dear New Glarus Spotted Cow,

letterstofood:

You are almost the perfect beer except that you are doing a very poor job at solving all my problems. Let me know when you are made with genetically modified problem solving hops. Except that I don’t really like overly hoppy beers, so, um.

I guess I’ll just drink you anyway.

e

A letter to Charles Green Shaw from H.L. Mencken, in list form. I especially like #3:

My favorite drinks, in order, are: beer in any form, Moselle, Bergundy, Chianti, gin and ginger-beer, and rye whiskey. I use Swedish punch only as a cocktail flavor. I dislike Scotch and seldom drink it. It makes me vaguely uneasy. I also dislike Rhine wine, save the very best. I never have a head-ache from drink. It fetches me by giving me pains of the legs. When I get stewed I go to sleep, even in the presence of womeen and clergymen.

From archivist Liza Kirwin’s Lists. More lists from Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Pablo Picasso, and Eero Saarinen at The Morning News.

Andy-in-a-can, via the other Andy:

Katie sends the above photo with this message:

Spotted today at Cumberland Brews, which is the owner of an impressive array of defunct brand beer cans…if the date on the can read “1979” rather than ‘78, I would’ve choked on my microbrew, bro…

It took a Kentuckian to remind me I’m glad to be back in Minnesota, where every can of beer is Andy’s beer. Psychically, I mean. 

Here’s what Rusy Cans Dot Com says about Andy’s Beer:

Andy’s Beer came out in several different designs and colors, none of which were particularly attractive, striking, or unique.

I beg to quibble. I think this can is extremely attractive, striking and unique, and I am — if you need reminded — a highly trained visual artist. It is unique and striking because it dares to say what all other beers only think: “I am Andy’s beer.” 

Also, in terms of attractiveness, I would like to point out that Andy’s Beer appears to come in many exciting pop-art shades of green, yellow, blue and orange. Q.E.D.

$2.99 for a six-pack of Sturgis Beer at Sentyrz? SOLD!

“I believed this would be a good time for a beer.” —FDR, after The 21st Amendment repealed prohibition.

Politicians Love Their Beer

"Obama hasn’t weighed in on his favorite brew. But foreign beers are not stocked at the White House, in a tradition dating to the Johnson administration."

This somehow made it into the end of an article about Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s arrest. Other important information learned; Skip Gates prefers Red Stripe and Beck’s, while Sgt. James Crowley has been known to drink Blue Moon.

Awaiting beer-centric analysis of American race and class tensions. Anyone?