I've been a Tom Robbins fan for a long time and how WONDERFUL was it to see he made a children's book about beer. (A children's book for grown-ups or A grown-up book for Children the cover says) And I finally just got around to reading it last night. It's about a little girl who discovers what beer is and she has a funny uncle and meets a beer fairy and what not and it was just great! You could read it in an hour or so. Anyone else read it?
A highlight!:
"...when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, allow the mixture to ferment--to rot--it magically produces an elixir so gass with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with protential mischeif, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsises float and merge."
Hmmm
A highlight!:
"...when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, allow the mixture to ferment--to rot--it magically produces an elixir so gass with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with protential mischeif, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsises float and merge."
Hmmm
