If you can't find good beer in the US, you're not really looking! Microbreweries are flourishing almost everywhere it's legal and a lot of it is good brew, mainly because it hasn't strayed far from its source. Like the much-cited Guinness (which I'm dying to try as close to the Liffey as possible), most imports we get in the US are but faint echoes of the original. Seek out the local stuff!
Alan Coren, former editor of the British humor magazine Punch, wrote a piece several years ago about the British love of failure in which he pointed out that even when a person is a success he is remembered by his failures. As I recall, he asked who remembers anything about King Canute but an elderly twit up to his knees in the surf, shouting at it to go away? Or King Alfred burning the cakes? The only thing I can think of in American culture that's even close is the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and even that's turned into a triumph in the end. As he cited more than one Evelyn Waugh character in his examples of much-loved English failures, I can't help but wonder if he turns to "The Loved One" for consolation when Hollywood gets him down.
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If you can't find good beer in the US, you're not really looking! Microbreweries are flourishing almost everywhere it's legal and a lot of it is good brew, mainly because it hasn't strayed far from its source. Like the much-cited Guinness (which I'm dying to try as close to the Liffey as possible), most imports we get in the US are but faint echoes of the original. Seek out the local stuff!
Alan Coren, former editor of the British humor magazine Punch, wrote a piece several years ago about the British love of failure in which he pointed out that even when a person is a success he is remembered by his failures. As I recall, he asked who remembers anything about King Canute but an elderly twit up to his knees in the surf, shouting at it to go away? Or King Alfred burning the cakes? The only thing I can think of in American culture that's even close is the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and even that's turned into a triumph in the end. As he cited more than one Evelyn Waugh character in his examples of much-loved English failures, I can't help but wonder if he turns to "The Loved One" for consolation when Hollywood gets him down.