St Paddy's Green Beer Pin for sale in Bethesda, MD
St Paddy's Green Beer Pin (For it's size - notice the dime in the photo) Why Green Beer, you may ask? Most sources say that the idea for the hued brew was cooked up in New York City over a 100 years ago. (That s right green beer began as a purely American tradition.) That year, as Don Russell over at Philly.com writes, the toastmaster of a Bronx social club s St. Paddy s celebration was a coroner named Dr. Thomas Hayes Curtin. To the surprise and delight of party-goers, the event s big dinner and sing-along was accompanied by Dr. Curtin s own recipe for a festive draft. Of the event, one newspaper from the time reported: Everything possible was green or decorated with that color and all through the banquet Irish songs were sung and green beer was served. No, it wasn t a green glass, but real beer in regular colorless glass, but the amber hue was gone from the brew and a deep green was there instead. [. . .] All the doctor would tell inquisitive people was that the effect is brought about by one drop of wash blue in a certain quantity of the beer. Wash blue is an iron powder solution embedded with a dye and was once used to make dingy whites bright again. Combined with lager presumably at a potency level low enough not to cause any non-booze related illnesses it apparently made for a delightfully festive draft. *PRICE FIRM - Porch Pick Up/Cash p/u Bethesda, Md off Old Georgetown Rd near Suburban Hospital/ NIH (1 mile from the Capitol beltway, 2 miles from the NW DC line & Rt 270 spur) *Mail ONLY within the US mainland pay for item + shipping/handling (5+$6- Total=$11) w/ http://www.PayPal.Me/Jeff2644
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