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by Janet Spencer On January 24, 1935, the first beer in cans was placed on sale in Richmond, Virginia. In honor of that event, come along with Tidbits as we take a look at beer! A CRUCIAL INVENTION • Ermal Cleon Fraze, born in 1913, grew up to found a tool and die company in the mid 1940s called Reliable Tool and Manufacturing Company. He invented a wide variety of products for clients including General Electric, Ford, and even NASA. But his most famous invention came as a result of a picnic in 1959. • Ermal had brought plenty of beer to the picnic, but he had forgotten the can opener, which, at that time, was the only way to crack open a cold one. He was forced to resort to opening the cans using the bumper of his car. “There oughta be a better way,” he thought to himself. • Several months later, he couldn’t sleep, so he got up to spend a few hours puttering in his workshop. The result of his tinkering was the first pop-top pulltab can. He received a patent for it in 1963, selling the invention to Alcoa. The first customer to use the new pull-tab can was the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, makers of Iron City Beer. By 1975, 75% of U.S. breweries were using them.
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• Frothingslosh was a brand of beer made by Iron City Brewing of Pittsburgh exclusively at Christmas time. The advertisements breathlessly exclaimed, “Oh, my gosh, it’s Frothingslosh!” It was billed as the “pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom.” How did they get the foam on the bottom? They pasted the label on upsidedown. • A little cobalt is absolutely necessary for good health, but a lot can kill. Brewers in Quebec and Omaha at one time added cobalt salts to their beer because it gave the brew a better head. When beer drinkers began dropping dead, the practice was halted. • When escape artist Houdini attempted to escape from a large can filled with beer, the stunt nearly ended in disaster when he was overcome by the carbon dioxide. The alert stage manager noted the lack of sounds coming from inside the can and released him in the nick of time. • One kind of male Australian beetle always seeks out the largest female to mate with. An Australian beer manufacturer unwittingly made their beer bottles in the shape and color of the female beetle, albeit at a fantastically large size. When it was brought to the company’s attention that thousands of male beetles were trying to mate with discarded beer bottles, they redesigned the bottle. • In the course of the 1949 British Open, Harry Bradshaw drove a ball into a beer bottle by accident. The ball broke the bottle’s neck and ended up inside the bottom of the bottle. Rather than risk a penalty, Bradshaw decided to play it where it lay. He smashed the bottle with his club. The bottle traveled about 30 feet.
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• The focal point of Irish social life is the pub. This is a term derived from ‘public house.’ At pubs, beer is served by the pint or the quart, which are abbreviated ‘P’ and ‘Q’ on the patron’s bar tab. If a bar owner was concerned that someone was running up too much of a bill, he might tell the person to ‘mind your Ps and Qs.’ “NATIONAL” WORDS (continued): tab wasChefs often know calledwhat a ‘scot’ and iftothe •A French: it means “french” item. or It’sforgot a verb to thatwrite meansthe owner losta food the scot to cut into thin strips, like, well, french fries. drink on the the drinker (And down yes, that’s how scot, the finger-friendly po- got dish took its name.) Green beans are offtato ‘scot-free.’ another item commonly prepared in this • Inmanner. the 1830s a temperance society in • Maltese: These tiny spaniels are easy to Michigan was tocampaigning identify thanks their long, silky against coats. Thethe American Kennel Club groups their members evils of drink. They offered them with other “Toy twoDogs” pledges: oneand was a pledge of moderate like Pugs Yorkshire the Terriers. drinking, other was a pledge of total Feline aficionados abstinence. Onterm the membership rolls those also use the Maltese to describe who had made pledges were identified cats that have a sigrayasmilarly eithersilky, “O.P.” for those who had taken blue coat. the “Old Pledge” to drink moderately, or • Colombian: This term means different things “T-Total” forpeople, thosedepending who embraced total to different on how you get your “jones.” dealers maybecame refer abstinence. ThisNarcotics group eventually to their products as Colombian, although the known Teetotalers. actual as source is often unknown. Luckily, the majority of us prefer a bit of legal Colom• Inbian, sailing, sheet is agrown line inthat as inathe coffee the attaches South American nation. The prevalence of coffee to shops the lower corner of a sail. When you throughout America is proof enough pull sheet thecan’t sailgetis along tight inagainst thatthe many of usin,just the morning without a hot cup of Colombian. the wind and the ship sails quickly. When •you Chinese: generic nowand let theThesheet out,termthe“chinese” sail sags represents types of food that are very differflaps in thethewind comes ent from mealsand that the are ship (or ever were)to a served in China. That said, the same standstill. A ship that has “threeargusheets ment could be made about what we consider to “American” the wind”food. is floating helplessly in the Hamburgers? Ice cream? Hot dogs? Pizza? Our national favorites water, just as a person who has had too seem to have originated everywhere except many is helpless. in thedrinks United States! Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.
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• The local military personnel were her best customers, leading to a name change to the Army and Navy Brewery. When Susannah died in the year 1886, her sons renamed the business again, calling it the Maritime Brewing & Malting Co. • In 1917, an explosion of a munitions ship in Halifax harbor wiped out most of the town. The blast killed nearly 2,000 people, including Conrad Oland. The brewery was ruined. Within a year, George re-opened in a different part of Halifax, using the insurance money. A second plant began production in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1928. This location is currently company headquarters.
• Through the years, the business evolved as it was managed by a continuing succession of Susannah’s descendents. Computers now control production. Hydraulic valves have replaced hand valves. Computer monitors now stand where control panels used to be. The facility in Saint John now cranks out 1,600 twelve-ounce bottles per minute. • Today, the Moosehead Brewery is run by two sixth-generation descendants, with Andrew Oland as CEO and Patrick Oland as CFO. Although it’s largely run by the male descendents of Susannah, Patrick Oland insists that the Quality Control department is populated mostly by women, because he feels they have a more sensitive palate.
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• Andrew Oland says, “My father, Derek, says that beer is a reward for hard work. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve just mowed the lawn, it’s Friday night and you’ve finished a tough week of work, or you’re getting together with friends. To me, it’s every time that you’ve worked hard and you’ve accomplished something and you want to reward yourself and celebrate your success.” • The company brews a number of beers aside from Moosehead Pale Ale, including labels such as Barking Squirrel, Cracked Canoe, and Lawn Chair. • Moosehead is now Canada’s oldest and largest brewery, as well as being the only independently family owned brewery in the country. The company currently employs about 350 people in New Brunswick. Greatgreat-great Grandma Susannah would be proud.
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