Word: lagering
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...ownership. Chairman Howard B. Johnson, 47, announced last week that an agreement in principle had been reached to sell the chain's 1,040 restaurants and 520 motor lodges to Imperial Group Ltd., a tobacco, food, beer and packaging conglomerate whose famous brands include Players cigarettes and Harp lager. The bundle from Britain will be $630 million, or about $28 per share for each of the U.S. firm's approximately 22.5 million shares; just before the announcement the stock was selling at about...
...varieties of the beverage that they extol as "liquid bread" and that is still prescribed by some of their physicians as the best remedy for tension and insomnia. Now, however, the beermakers themselves are losing sleep. Having grown steadily for 30 years, the German thirst for lager is receding. Last year the average amount consumed by each of the nation's 61 million men, women and children was "only" 38 gallons. While that would be an astonishing level in most other countries,* it was actually off from the 1976 peak of 40 gallons. Even more upsetting, coffee has replaced...
...points from the IRA, but there's something wrong. Maybe it's the music--no bagpipes--or the bartenders--too many straight noses and not enough freckles in that crowd. It's even worse at the Wursthans, where you may be able to pick up a bottle of Harp Lager, but the accents are all wrong. And the only thing Irish about Father's Six is the in-house entertainment: every few days you're treated to a re-enactment of the Irish civil war. Come to think of it, most of those Cambridge cops who come in to break...
...There is lager, that aged beer, redolent of malt and yeast, as cold as a riverbed and as hearty as an anthem. Or ale, with an aroma the patron can walk on. Or porter and stout, those distinct dark ales with creamy heads and the personality of Irish storytellers. Or bock beer, with its heady perfume and heavy persuasive taste. Or malt liquor-but the list is endless...
Even the radio broadcasting crew has changed this season. Dave Martin is out and Jim Wood is broadcasting along with play-by-play vet Ned Martin. And Narragansett Lager beer, the beer with that "straight from the barrel taste," is back again as a sponsor for the first time since the famous '67 season. (Of course, old favorite engineer A1 Walker is back once again this year to the delight of his many fans. Some things never change...