Labatt's drinking songs

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:17 pm

John Labatt's employee drinking songs booklet from 1930

Tapsucker · Post by **Tapsucker** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:01 pm

Oh my, how raucous! No wonder the ladies were kept from the taverns for fear of losing their modesty.

Ah to live in an era where people sung God Save The King when they got drunk...

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:35 pm

Tapsucker wrote:Oh my, how raucous! No wonder the ladies were kept from the taverns for fear of losing their modesty.

Ah to live in an era where people sung God Save The King when they got drunk...

"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" HAS to be in B FLAT???

ErkLR · Post by **ErkLR** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:02 pm

I'm most interested in what that IPA on the cover would taste like. I know it'd be nothing like current NA IPA's, but it'd still be interesting.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:53 am

Interesting that "Frankie and Johnny" is there. That song was so prolific amongst blues singers in the 20s and 30s. Almost EVERYONE got credit for writing it, but it goes back to the turn of the last century.

My favourite story of this song is from a Johnny Cash record I have. Cash has a little blurb about all of the songs on the record, and he has one about how he wrote "Frankie and Johnny". The funniest part is that he says he can't even remember who Frankie was...I think this was during Cash's "really drugged up" stage.

groulxsome · Post by **groulxsome** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:09 am

The John Labatt Song seems oddly self-effacing and a little prophetic about the mechanization of brewing.

Oh John Labatt, oh John Labatt,
How could you be so mean;
I told you you'd be sorry
For inventing that machine.
Now all the crops of Malt and Hops
Are nowhere to be seen,
They're all done up in bottles
In John Labatt's machine

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:59 pm

ErkLR wrote:I'm most interested in what that IPA on the cover would taste like. I know it'd be nothing like current NA IPA's, but it'd still be interesting.

I think Zack from Toronto Brewing got his hands on a 1950's Labatt's IPA, found it at a flea market recently.

ErkLR · Post by **ErkLR** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:47 am

phirleh wrote:
ErkLR wrote:I'm most interested in what that IPA on the cover would taste like. I know it'd be nothing like current NA IPA's, but it'd still be interesting.
I think Zack from Toronto Brewing got his hands on a 1950's Labatt's IPA, found it at a flea market recently.

Wow, I meant a recently brewed beer made with the same recipe. Did he actually open the beer?

Tapsucker · Post by **Tapsucker** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:41 pm

Time to approach Labatt to sponsor a "Son of Labatt IPA" homebrew contest like Amsterdam did with Boneshaker a couple years back. Hand out the recipe and the yeast and see who can make the best version.

I wonder if they re-released a product like that, how they would explain the Keith's "IPA" fraud.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:56 pm

Nice find! I enjoyed that.