A toast to green beer

This seemed like the proper week to share the following historical tidbit, from Vox — namely, on the origins of green beer!

Vox reports: “Regardless of who invented it, the first people to make green beer probably made it the same, slightly unintuitive way it’s made today: a mixture of beer and blue food coloring (the blue mixes with the natural yellow of the beer to make green). Generally, the drink is credited to Professor Thomas H. Curtin, a physician who made green beer for his clubhouse in New York. Curtin’s green beer was around as early as 1914, but other green beers appeared at the same time or slightly earlier.

“In 1910, the Spokane Press used a headline to shout, ‘Green Beer Be Jabbers!’ (‘be jabbers’ is an excited swear). See you somewhere on Saturday. Cheers!

Drop me a line at rrollins@coxohio.com.