cbc column
St. Patrick’s day is approaching. Can I tempt you to drink something other than green beer? I mean hey, if you're really into green beer, then by all means, drink up. I hear they'll be serving it at the Blarney Stone. For me though, food colouring added to beer doesn’t enhance my drinking experience, especially as it is generally added to macro lagers. I would rather drink flavourful beer! I find the idea of “drowning the shamrock” for luck, where a clover is added to beer or whisky and the whole thing downed, shamrock and all, a lot more palatable way to put some green in my beer to celebrate the day. Afterall, g reen beer is not an Irish tradition. So where did green beer come from? Who thought that it would be a good idea to slip food colouring into beer? T he earliest reference I found to the drinking of green beer is a newspaper articlefrom 1914 about a New York social club serving green beer at a St. Patrick’s...
