A very sweet series of imperial stouts, named after the Lost Generation, calls to mind Wilfred Owens’s critique of Horace’s “old Lie” that it is “sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
All tagged Modernism
The Great Gatsby and Right Proper's "Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne"
Nick Carraway’s exuberance for Gatsby echoes the over-the-top ebullience of America’s Jazz Age. The fizzy zippiness of Right Proper’s Berliner Weisse “Diamonds, Fur Coats, Champagne” lives up to both, with just the right sourness to echo the book’s tragedies.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and Ommegang's Lovely, Dark, and Deep
An Ommegang beer named after a line from Robert Frost prompts me to consider the ways that we evaluate beer.
The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, and Cinderlands Beer Company
The literature evoked by the name of a new Lawrenceville brewery, Cinderlands.