The Growth And Production :: Beer Papers

The Growth And ProductionThe smell of yeast hits you on the street more than a block away. Inside the lobby of the brewery, it is even stronger. I wondered how long that secretary had been putting up with the smell. You get used to it. she utter The tour begins in ten minutes. Two other families had come to analyse this tour as well. A tasteful way to spend the good afternoon with grandp arents or in-laws, I thought. A short old man comes protrude after a while. He is wearing an amplifier around his neck and carrying a microph cardinal. The speaker is bigger his stage. The other members of the group stand up and we are all lead back out onto the street. The traffic rushes by us as he explains the square brass plate bolted into the pavement at our feet. This is a time capsule squawks the amplifier. The time capsule was buried in 1956 and will be opened again in the year 2006. It contains one bottle of Henry-Weinhards beer, and one local newspaper. I protrude a herd gathered he re in nine years and I range of a function them some litre years ago. Maybe they shiver against the rain or maybe they brace themselves against a fierce wind rushing up Burnside St. like it is today. In any case I picture them waiting there as the sacred bottle is unearthed, having traversed time to look at us the old newspaper. I wonder if it will keep up glacial 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 in concert most readily by such a symbol. Nothing warms Ameri gages up to each other like alcohol. Blitz beer is one of the cheapest brands one sess buy in the grocery store these days. It runs about four or five dollars for a twelve pack. Needless to say it is the choice of the thriftier lush. The can is of a simple design. White with red letters reading Oregons reward q uality beer for over fifty years....Founded 1856. One is lead to wonder whether those fifty premium years are taking place now, or if they have already passed us by. Blitz is really not that bad. It does the job, as they say, scarce the beer connoisseur would not be impressed by the flavor or body.