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St Paddy's Green Beer Pin

St Paddy's Green Beer Pin
(For it's size - notice the dime in the photo)

Why Green Beer, you may ask?
Most sources say that the idea for the hued brew was cooked up in New York City over a 100 years ago. (That’s right—green beer began as a purely American tradition.) That year, as Don Russell over at Philly.com writes, the toastmaster of a Bronx social club’s St. Paddy’s celebration was a coroner named Dr. Thomas Hayes Curtin. To the surprise and delight of party-goers, the event’s big dinner and sing-along was accompanied by Dr. Curtin’s own recipe for a festive draft. Of the event, one newspaper from the time reported:

Everything possible was green or decorated with that color and all through the banquet Irish songs were sung and green beer was served. No, it wasn’t a green glass, but real beer in regular colorless glass, but the amber hue was gone from the brew and a deep green was there instead. [. . .] All the doctor would tell inquisitive people was that the effect is brought about by one drop of wash blue in a certain quantity of the beer.

“Wash blue” is an iron powder solution embedded with a dye and was once used to make dingy whites bright again. Combined with lager—presumably at a potency level low enough not to cause any non-booze related illnesses—it apparently made for a delightfully festive draft.
*PRICE FIRM - Porch Pick Up/Cash
p/u Bethesda, Md off Old Georgetown Rd near Suburban Hospital/ NIH (1 mile from the Capitol beltway, 2 miles from the NW DC line & Rt 270 spur)

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