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From: pgs@ai.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 22:33:00 EST
To: all-ai
Subject: GSB 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 26, 7th floor playroom

Yes, there will be a GSB tomorrow.  We shall be featuring Catamount
Amber, an excellent American ale from White River Junction in Vermont.
Michael Jackson, the renowned British critic of beers, gives this
"assertive" beer two and a half stars on a scale of four, and notes
its "polite nod toward English pale ale."  We also have a few
remaining bottles of Harpoon Ale, that old favorite of GSBs past.

One of our specialty sixes this spring weekend is Negra Modelo.  This
Mexican import demonstrates far better than such swill as Corona and
Dos Equis the influence of pre-war Austrian emigres on Mexican
breweries.  The prominent brewer Charlie Papazian notes that in Negra
Modelo we have what may be the last Vienna-style lager in the world to
be brewed on a large scale.  Jackson describes it as "creamy in body,
with a hint of chocolate," and gives it three stars on a scale of
four,

Our other specialty six is the famous Chimay Blue, brewed by Trappist
monks at the abbey of Notre Dame de Scourmont, in French-speaking
Belgium.  You will not like this beer unless you have a taste for very
rich, dark beers with heavy body and complex, fruity flavors.  It is
bottle-conditioned and not pasteurized, so that it contains live
yeast.  Jackson gives it four stars, noting "that characteristically
Chimay depth of aromatic fruitiness -- a Zinfandel, or even a port,
among beers."

Of course, you may prefer some Bud Lite, manufactured from rice pap,
corn syrup and preservatives.  If you do, be sure to bring some to
this week's special spring

                 G I R L   S C O U T   B E N E F I T

at 5:30 pm in the seventh floor playroom.  As a special treat, there
will also be some I.B.C. Root Beer, which has been described by
renowned computer science professor Lynn Stein as "the root beer I buy
at Star Market."