tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post8547649141666441816..comments2024-03-29T07:54:08.898-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Germany and Free TradeRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-91683002619027560412012-09-16T11:16:14.426-07:002012-09-16T11:16:14.426-07:00Matt, that's it.
Sorry for not remembering w...Matt, that's it. <br /><br />Sorry for not remembering whre I'd read it.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-85395370553767392672012-09-16T09:29:38.583-07:002012-09-16T09:29:38.583-07:00"As someone else recently wrote in a blog or ..."As someone else recently wrote in a blog or newspaper (I can't remember, so why pretend?) English pubs have never been classless."<br /><br />Might be <a href="http://whenmyfeetgothroughthedoor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/whats-point-of-pubs.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> blog post of mine you're thinking of Ron.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310220100267028274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-71730624119863123372012-09-16T06:12:16.796-07:002012-09-16T06:12:16.796-07:00The story of beer being consumed after Champagne p...The story of beer being consumed after Champagne provides both historical and a (German-American)cultural context for the pre-Prohibition Lowenbrau ad in America: "When you run out of Champagne, bring out the Lowenbrau".<br /><br />As to what the Prince liked in matters of the malt, it could be one of those situations where a drink achieved early a pantheonic status which laid it exempt from national predelictions if not prejudices. Champagne indeed is like that and has been for a long time (and he is connected to Champagne too as Martyn said). The Beatles were like that in Communist Russia, etc.<br /><br />The situation culturally wasn't the same, but nonetheless it is fair to note that porter did achieve a certain status or affection in upper-class English minds. There was that early 1800's Royal Visit to Whitbread for example (and more than one such Royal acknowledgement). Pamela Sambrook has shown that country house inventories regularly included supplies of London porter and she notes a "portering fatt" (vat) used in brewing operations in one such house circa-1700, before the first documented mention of porter in 1721. (This term may have nothing to do with porter as beer, but it is an area for exploration for those inclinced, IMO)<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-41943326567576745862012-09-16T02:00:37.075-07:002012-09-16T02:00:37.075-07:00Seems odd that Bismarck, who, after all, had led P...Seems odd that Bismarck, who, after all, had led Prussia into war with Austria-Hungary only five years before, and who had just that year deliberately welded together a German reich that specifically excluded Austria, would drink beer from Vienna. He was famous, after all, for drinkin <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&safe=images&noj=1&tbm=isch&tbnid=LxODy2YycyO4yM:&imgrefurl=http://cocktail101.org/2011/07/26/11-bismarck/&docid=GNgv5NPOIKTFVM&imgurl=http://cocktail101.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/the-very-old-soldier.jpeg&w=726&h=784&ei=T5RVUN-JFImtiQeThIDABA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=172&vpy=127&dur=674&hovh=112&hovw=104&tx=118&ty=96&sig=114282929657846081596&page=1&tbnh=112&tbnw=104&start=0&ndsp=72&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:75&biw=2140&bih=1091" rel="nofollow">Black Velvet</a>, either Guinness and chanpagne or Schwarzbier and champagne, depending on which source you want to trust.Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com