Froth

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30763, 29 May 1965, Page 4

Froth

The Froth-Blowers Manual. Pat. Lawlor. Wellington. 131 pp. 1965. If it is a dubious distinction of New Zealanders that they drink more beer per capita than any other of the world’s “hop-heads,” the time must have arrived for the subject to be examined in our literature. Mr Lawlor’s confessions as to how he became a beerdrinker, where he found the potable liquors and who brewed them, is a promising, start. A chapter on beer in! New Zealand where “the tank, the hose, plus legislation, have I made Enzed a beer-swill ( nation” has aspects of inter-! est. in the place in our alcoholic history of the nation’s!

. j brewers (who then became ■ philanthropists), and in coni trast, the stalwarts of the Prohibition movement. Some ( beer ballads of Australian i, tone have been assembled and 11 the author’s knowledge of the ;■ subject has produced a beer Encyclopaedia or an A to Z glossary of boosy terms. This ; part of the booklet is useful. ■ After the entertainment of his froth-blowing the author astounds at the end by his dis- ; i closure that though he is still i a lover of beer, he no longer ; drinks it. His entertainment i will appeal to the 75 per cent who vote Continuance while i the other 25 per cent might be appalled by the personal land general disclosures. i