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

[Henry M]

http://www.slate.com/id/2151514/

Great find!  Thanks, MalignD.  My father would have appreciated.
There's was always Ballantine on the boat when we went fishing.

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20



On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:43 PM,  MalingnD wrote:
> 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)
>