The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-12
NEAR-BEER JAZZING LATEST WAY TO GET
 KICK AT VOLSTEAD
Mixing Up the Different Brews Said to Bring All the Results of an
 Old Time Bout.
"HaVe another?"

Have another?"
 The man who had just been treated to a glass of near-beer in one of the Clty'S near-bcer empOrlumS turn ed to his friend, the treater, as he set down his empty glass.
 Let's move along to the next corner, where they serve another brand and jazz 'em up little,' said the second.
 Good idca," said the first Let's go." And they moved on. "What's the idea?" asked the inno- cent bystander of the man behind the
 bar Cor is 'counter" the proper term, according to Nolstead?O
 "Haven't you been educated yet" asked the man behind. That is the
 latest thing in putting pep into non
 alcoholic beer. Keep changing the
 brand 1 don't drink 1t myself, SO 1 don't know from experience, but 1 know that a number of near-beer drinkers, who used to stick to one brand are mixing them now, and they claim that the effect is far more stim ulatlng than that of an equal number of glasses of the same brew" "They're crazy,'' opined the inno- cent bystander
 Maybe they are," said the man be- hind, but there are some of them who arc pretty we'll educated in judg- ing beer and it's effect. They claim that, mixing them up has somewhat the same effect as mixing drinks in the pre-prohibition days used to have"
 Beer Jazzing.
 Investigation showed that "beer jazzing" is not altogether a new sci Hri 0f beer are finding a little more exhil- aration in drinking the Hess than one half of one' by mixing the brands Of course there are those who mix | near beer with Jamaica ginger, med icated alcohol and various other sub stances and thereby obtain a "kick," but the mixers in the real "beer jazz"
 mix nothing but brands, and the beer they drink is all within the limits of the law.
 Mixed Drinks in 1921. Tt sounds ridiculous enough at first" one bartender, who had studied the habit a little, said last night, "but you can see something to it at that, if you study it little Remember l the days when beer had a little kick
 to it. In those days, the man who kept mixing the brands got under
 
 sticking industrously to one brand was still fresh. It was not that there was more alcohol in one beer than in the other, but simply that somehow they were not the same mixture, and there was some sort of resultant ac- 1 ton which was not brought about | by either brand alone. You've prob l ably seen people mixing ale and porter, ale and lager, ale and cider, | lager and ginger ale, and all that sort ] of mixtures. The mixture had some sort. of a kick that was not to be 1 found in any of the beverages alone. | It is only reasonable to believe that stripped of their alcohol, the bever- ages mixed may have an effect not to 1 be obtained by any of them separ-
 ately.
 l That Sought for Thrill.
 "Take another illustration. In the f old days they used to serve a cocktail
 as an appetizer There was alcohol in ] it, of course. Then, if he wanted to 1 top off his dinner right you would serve him well, let's say little
 cognac and bcnedictine There was l just as much alcohol in that. But you wouldn't think of serving him | cognac and benedictine for an appe- tiger and you wouldn't think of giv- | ing him a martini at the close of l the meal In other words, 1t was not the alcohol but what went with it. It seems reasonable to believe | that, if mixing brands of beverage with alcohol in them, produced diff fcrcnt effects miving brands of bever- age without alcohol in them might also have different effects. It is ad mittcd that, while the various near
 beers on sale in this city are made out of substantially the same mater ial, there is a difference. Some peo- pie claim one brand is the best and others that another is best. Mixing
 the brands may have the effect claim
 ed for it. Anyway, a number of peo- pie claim it has the jazz effect" Brewers Unanimous. Brewers who should know just how well their beer mixes with the other | fellows, and whether there is more jazz in mixing them up, or in stick
 ing to one brew, did not have much l to say on the subject. They did not 1 know that anybody mixed anybody
 clsc's beer with their beer. There
 was only one thing they seemed to
 be unanimous on. Beach brewer ad- l mitted that his brand was the best rear-beer made
 Relativity Theory as to Near-Beer. 1 Most of the near-beer dispensaries are under contract to use one brand 1 of brew, only, and, therefore, it is
 not always possible to stand at one bar and test the theory of relatiVitY