tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post924525749591882078..comments2023-12-11T08:10:41.077+00:00Comments on Mark Dredge - Beer: Wrigley Field and Old StyleMark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-69880351460180003762012-04-25T16:50:35.384+01:002012-04-25T16:50:35.384+01:00As one born in Chicago (Arlington Heights, technic...As one born in Chicago (Arlington Heights, technically) I personally thank you for embracing Old Style. Although I left Chi young, I remember as a child, the numerous plastic Old Style signs dangling precariously outside some of the more, shall I say, "interesting" bars and taverns of the city. The white signs, swinging in the breeze; their blackletter font emblazoned on a blue shield—a shield that always reminded me of a sharp chinned professor in a mortar board.<br /><br />Those signs are truly one of the most indelible images of Chicago that I have. Nothing says "the city of big shoulders" to me more.<br /><br />Old Style isn't about simply about a beer made in Chicago—it's a beer made of Chicago. Alan wrote <a href="http://beerblog.genx40.com/archive/2011/september/iamnotgoingto" rel="nofollow">a post in September about Old Style</a> and I commented with a poem—and I never write poems.<br /><br />Old Style is Carl Sandburg and the Billy Goat curse. <br />A river dyed green in March and Mrs O'Leary's cow.<br />It's Vienna beef with neon green relish, tomatoes, a sport pepper and celery salt. <br />The Loop, the L, the wind. <br />A three-peat and John Hancock. <br />It's deep dish and Belushi.<br />Lujack and the Christmas windoews at Marshall Fields.<br /> Lower Wacker, the Eisenhower and the view of the Lake from the Gold Coast. <br />It's the North Shore and the South Side. <br />Capone and Daley. <br /> Italian Beef and a freezing third and goal at Soldier. <br />It's Sue at the Field and Navy Pier. <br />Seven in sixty-eight and Lincoln Park. <br />The Watertower and Blackhawks.<br />Harry Caray and Wrigleyville. <br />Some say it's the barley and others the hops, <br />I say it's State Street and the Sears Tower that makes Old Style great.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00374706510870731159noreply@blogger.com