Thomas Pynchon Beers -- not P, but ...

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Jasper Johns knows all about Ballantine Ale.


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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon Beers -- not P, but ...


Ballantine Ale

Bob Benchley first introduced me to Ballantine Ale. It has been a good
companion ever since.

You have to work hard to deserve to drink it. But I would rather have a
bottle of Ballantine Ale than any other drink after fighting a really
big fish.

We keep it iced in the bait box with chunks of ice packed around it.
And you ought to taste it on a hot day when you have worked a big
marlin fast because there were sharks after him.

You are tired all the way through. The fish is landed untouched by
sharks and you have a bottle of Ballantine cold in your hand and drink
it cool, light and full-bodied, so it tastes good long after you have
swallowed it. That's the test of an ale with me: whether it tastes as
good afterwards as when it's going down. Ballantine does.

–Ernest Hemingway (1951)



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