Tag: Lager

• Orizaba Beer

  

  I was reading the last chunk of Against the Day a few weeks ago, freshly home from Mexico, and I found a passage containing a couple of drinks that I’d entirely missed recording on The List. Page 990 brings us to a cantina called “El Quetzal Dormido,” where Frank is drinking “either maguey brandy from…

  mjhorn

  March 13, 2024

  Against The Day, Beer

  Frank Traverse, Gunther von Quassel, Lager, Mexico

• A six-pack of Dos Equis

  

  Vineland hasn’t gotten much of a run around here, I think because I can barely remember what happens in it. Something to do with Reagan? And ninjas? Clearly a reread is in order sometime soon. I do remember Pynchon’s sympathies for Family as a potential seat of grace and humanity and a bulwark against Their…

  mjhorn

  February 27, 2018

  Beer, Vineland

  Lager, Mexico, Prairie, Zoyd

• Rolling Rock

  A week or so ago, I had the unexpectedly excellent experience of visiting the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St Louis. The brewery complex was opened in 1852, and it has some terrific architecture to show for its long history, even if the beer itself is perhaps less exceptional. I was of course curious as to what Pynchonian alcoholic…

  mjhorn

  July 18, 2014

  Beer, Bleeding Edge

  Bars/Places, Driscoll, Horst, Lager, Maxine, Pynchon, Rolling Rock, USA