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Today, whether it is New Amsterdam in New York City, Catamount Amber in Vermont, Abita in Louisiana, Lair Dog at the Tap & Growler in Chicago, Reinheitsgebot in Plano, Texas, or one of the 20 regional brews on tap at Cooper's Ale House in Seattle, the appeal of locally brewed beer is akin to that of regional cheeses, breads and homegrown vegetables. "It's the fascination with something unique and handcrafted," says Shelby Meyer, who writes a newsletter for a home-brewers' club...
...appeal of these fresh beers is more to yuppies than to connoisseurs. According to Matthew Reich, founder of the New Amsterdam Brewery, his typical customer is college educated, between 25 and 45, and earns at least $30,000 a year. Prices are upscale too, with microbrews selling in supermarkets for as much as $11.94 for six, as compared with $3.99 for light beer and $6.49 for imports. Many of the microbreweries have pubs attached, and much of the fun comes from gathering there, usually in view of copper brewing vats, and nibbling on such sturdy fare as chili, nachos...
...Extra Pale Ale lacked authority, as did Minnesota's August Schell's Pilsner and Cold Spring Export "water-made." The best by far was the sophisticated, convincingly German-style Samuel Adams lager, followed by the clear, refreshing Dock Street Amber from Philadelphia and the tangy, cider-like New Amsterdam Amber. The heady, all malt Eau Claire lager from Wisconsin was perhaps the most interesting of all, with a seductive, cocoa scent and savor that makes bracing between-meal sipping. Bottoms...
Hard drugs are usually sold in more menacing surroundings. On the Zeedijk, a narrow enclosed street near the central railroad station where few residents walk after dark, peddlers sidle up to passersby, within sight of policemen patrolling in pairs. On Dam Straat, Amsterdam's other notorious drug row, a span over a placid canal dubbed the "pill bridge" served as the main bazaar for illicit prescription narcotics until police cracked down recently...
...prosecution; users are not arrested unless they commit other crimes. The Dutch are still experimenting with how to handle their 16,000 heroin addicts, a number that is significantly higher in proportion to the population than the estimated addicts in West Germany, Britain and France. In the late '70s, Amsterdam licensed four cafes to distribute heroin to addicts. The result was a spurt in drug-related crime and 30 heroin-overdose deaths a year. The city scrapped the scheme in 1980. Today, whenever a junkie is arrested for robbery or other crimes, he is offered a choice between going...