[SOC] Soldering Irons / Guns/Beer

[Fred Jensen]

ng3o wrote:
> <<"From the land of sky blue waters
> Comes the beer refreshing.
> Hamms, the beer refreshing."
> 
> Curse you! :)>>
> 
> Jeez, why did you have to do that? Now you've got that insidious tom-tom 
> beat going in my head.
> 
> When I was a young fella growing up in the South, the beer that was the 
> target of the most derision was unquestionably Jax. I presume it was 
> produced by the old Jax brewery on Jackson Square in New Orleans. It was 
> said by some to be brewed from potato peelings. I'm pretty sure I never 
> heard it called anything better than "an atrocity."

A subject of " Soldering Irons / Guns" is about beer?  Now ... that's 
really SOC!

At 27, in the AF and in Houston assigned to NASA, I tried Jax.  It 
wasn't San Miguel ... but not so bad.  Doesn't vodka come from potato 
peelings?  Lone Star had a good bite, and was variable, just like San 
Miguel, which I considered to be a "feature" then.  I'm older now, don't 
think that's true anymore.  You couldn't get a drink over a bar in 
Houston then, but you could open a beer bar in your garage just by 
opening the door.  That's how I found Jax.

Hamms was sort of watery, not unlike Olympia. Then there was the generic 
  in the white can that said "BEER" during the late 70's.  With too many 
kids and too little income, we did drink that.  Wonder what it was made 
from?  OK ... I drank it so I don't wonder.

73,

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw