Return-Path: From: cgdemarc@ai.mit.edu (Carl de Marcken) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 14:22:03 EST To: all-ai Subject: GSB, 5:30 Friday February 4th, 1994, 7AI. This week at GSB we will be debuting a new and flavorful beer, Webster Avenue's "Auto Body", an amber ale brewed in neighboring Somerville in strict accordance with the Massachusetts "Brehmstrahhlung" purity law of 1776. Webster Avenue (Inc) is a newcomer to the brewing business. Founded in 1983 by two Portuguese immigrants, Teofanes and Mafalda Paduano, the company originally subsisted on proceeds culled from a moderate traffic in rebuilt carburetors and ignition systems for '73-'81 era Japanese compacts. Somerville's colorful history is filled with such entrepreneuring capitalists; the city's charter establishes guidelines for passing businesses from generation to generation, quality ensured by rigorous apprenticeships and a thriving guild system. Eventually stiff local competition and declining demand for non-electronic ignition systems forced Teofanes and Mafalda to diversify. After selling most of their stock to Ellis the Rim Man at fire-sale rates, they began a risky program of refurbishing drinking fountains "acquired" from derelict municipal buildings, selling them back to the state government at usurious prices during the sweltering summer months, under the aegis of overly-accommodating minority-owned business laws. When one day a purchasing agent from the Chelsea post office complained about the characteristically amber color of Webster Avenue's water, the seed of a fruitful idea implanted itself in Teofanes' fertile and fecund imagination. The rest is history. Experience Somerville's finest, Auto Body Amber Ale, and other locally produced beverages at this week's G I R L S C O U T B E N E F I T to be held at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, February 4th, 1994, in the seventh floor playroom. We recommend that all comers temporarily refrain from dietary supplements that might contain iron. Next week: the Russians finance the Rainbow Coalition's first attempt at a Porter.