Sorry I haven't written in a while. Things have been really hectic the last few weeks. It doesn't mean that I haven't had food adventures! I just haven't had the time to type any of them up. My days and part of the night have been spent working on American Gangster and dealing with the homestead. One of my projects at work was making some prop beer circa 1970. The Budweiser peeps finally responded to our requests and sent us some vintage beer labels. The actors can't get drunk while working, so I bought non alcoholic Kaliber by Guinness and Buckler Beer by Heineken. They both have brown bottles like Bud. However, my favorite version has been the bottles of Reed's Raspberry Ginger Beer. It's soda, but I love the graceful looking bottles. The necks seem longer than the fake beers. I painted the bottle caps with a silver paint pen to cover up the twist tops and learned in the process that the twist off cap was introduced in the late 1960s. Anheuser-Busch started testing the twist off in 1964, but didn't use it in mass quantities until around 1967. They must have been drunk, why would it take 3 years to test a bottle cap?!
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