Context was everything: she would pair a "heady blond beer" with Munster cheese, finely minced onion and good crusty bread, and light, dry wine with an omelet or sole meunière.
For the past three days the air here at La Sarthe has been a heady mix of barbecues, beer, fireworks and sweating skin gently basting in the sun.
The last was heady blend of two hundred grams of Zhiguli beer, fifty grams each of white-lilac toilet water and athlete's-foot remedy, and a hundred and fifty grams of alcohol varnish.
There they were, snapping pictures at the Statue of Liberty, savoring Jamaican food at a trendy restaurant, clinking beer bottles and wineglasses in heady toasts back at their hotel.
Page C1 Dining HOP FARMERS REVIVING HEADY DAYS OF BREWING Nearly a century after industrialized beer production turned hop barns into a memory, farmers and craft brewers are trying to revive the Finger Lakes region's hop culture, harnessing the current passion for all things local and artisanal.
Too early for dinner, too late for lunch, we turned to the imaginative pub menu, and soon a raft of small plates arrived, among them flash-fried bites of cured pork belly in a heady chimichurri sauce, and just-caught hake in the lightest of beer batters.
A beer was usually available, but failing that, it was enough to sniff the heady atmosphere, as the walls, floor and ceiling were always awash with alcohol.
From Stella beer signs to burnt orange Hummers, the place has gone a bit Beverly Hills since those heady days of innocence.
The craft beer industry grew at a euphoric rate of 50percentt in both 1994 and 1995, spurring some regional brewers -- heady as prom queens with their local popularity -- to rush their products into new markets.
