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

[Henry M]

NP, or even writerly, but:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/reviews/24wine.html

AsB4,

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



On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.slate.com/id/2151514/
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> Great find!  Thanks, MalignD.  My father would have appreciated.
> There's was always Ballantine on the boat when we went fishing.
>
> AsB4,
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> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
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> 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)
>>
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