Thursday, August 27, 2015

Narragansett Beer as an antidote to Lovecraft's " cosmic horror " ?

  I  am lacking in bibulous experience to comment on the present quality of the once legendary Narragansett Beer. But I remember those classic 1950s TV commercials which associated the brew with the pristine pure waters of the Scituate Reservoir. Now if they can bring THAT back  I would drink a lot more of this beer.
     Something has happened to the quality of the Providence drinking water in the last few decades. It was once praised as the finest drinking water in the world. Not for nothing more and more people are drinking bottled water.
    Also, I must scold the Narragansett Beer advertising staff for associating the American Gothic face of that famous horror writer and Providence gentleman, H.P. Lovecraft, with beer drinking. Lovecraft loathed ALL alcoholic beverages. But he could be forgiven a few nights of beer drunkenness himself after all that " Horror at Red Hook " experience or the encounter with that " Thing at the Doorstep ".
    Can  any brew of Narragansett Beer serve as an antidote to " cosmic horror " ?
  [http://radicalrons.blogspot.com ]
Narragansett Beer once came from pristine Scituate Reservoir
    

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