Show from where I 1 sit t zy y joe marsh WHEN you consider the new products weve seen developed in our time think that just about everything worth while in the world was invented in the last few years ita kind of refreshing for a change to find out that some pleasant things in our modern life date way back to ancient days for instance I 1 read the other cabout Sa about bout a piece of pottery some dug up in mesopotamia C on n the pottery was a picture of two brewery workers making beer that picture was years old 41 you know something to think about Beer years ago I 1 wonder if it tasted anything like the good lager beer I 1 have sent up to the house every now and then somewhere else I 1 read that beer came over on the mayflower in fact if I 1 remember right a shortage of beer was one of the reasons why the pilgrims landed at plymouth rock instead of somewhere else 0 interesting isn it the way a simple everyday beverage like beer can get tangled up with history maybe its because theres something fundamental and human about beer its the beverage of moderate sensible well behaved people in every part of the world and always has been personally I 1 like it because it tastes so good and is so refreshing and I 1 know I 1 can trust it and I 1 get a thrill out of thinking that maybe some writer fellow back in ancient egypt or ancient mesopotamia thousands of years ago felt the same way about beer as i I 1 do its ICs a small world after all 0 no 43 of a series copyright 1942 brewing industry foundation |