The Growth And Production :: Beer Papers

The Growth And ProductionThe smell of yeast hits you on the street more than a block a bearing. Inside the vestibule of the brewery, it is even stronger. I wondered how long that secretary had been putting up with the smell. You pick out used to it. she said The tour begins in ten minutes. Two other families had come to take this tour as well. A tasteful way to spend the afternoon with grandparents or in-laws, I thought. A short senior human being comes out after a while. He is wearing an amplifier some his neck and carrying a microph oneness. The speaker is bigger his head. The other members of the group bide up and we are all die back out onto the street. The business rushes by us as he explains the square brass coat bolted into the pavement at our feet. This is a time contraction squawks the amplifier. The time capsule was buried in 1956 and volition be opened again in the year 2006. It contains one feeding bottle of Henry-Weinhards beer, and one local newspaper. I c haracterisation a crowd gathered here in nine geezerhood and I picture them some fifty years ago. Maybe they smash against the rain or maybe they brace themselves against a fierce lead rushing up Burnside St. like it is today. In any elusion I picture them waiting there as the sacred bottle is unearthed, having traversed time to bring us the old newspaper. I wonder if it leave have frozen and cracked down there. I wonder if anyone will drink that bottle if it is intact when it is brought to surface. I picture the small man with the amplifier tipping back his head and downing the contents of the artifact. We are truly a people brought together most readily by such a symbol. Nothing warms Americans up to each other like alcohol. Blitz beer is one of the cheapest brands one can buy in the grocery store these days. It runs just about four or five dollars for a twelve pack. Needless to plead it is the choice of the thriftier lush. The can is of a simple design. White with red earn reading Oregons Premium quality beer for over fifty years....Founded 1856. One is lead to wonder whether those fifty premium years are taking cast now, or if they have already passed us by. Blitz is really not that bad. It does the job, as they say, but the beer connoisseur would not be impressed by the flavor or body.