Some articles on beer boots, beer, boot:
Beer Glassware - German and Austrian Styles - Beer Boot
... Beer boots, or Bierstiefel, have over a century of history and culture behind them ... It is commonly believed that a general somewhere promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in battle ... prevailed, the general had a glassmaker fashion a boot from glass to fulfill his promise without tasting his own feet and to avoid spoiling the beer in his ...
... Beer boots, or Bierstiefel, have over a century of history and culture behind them ... It is commonly believed that a general somewhere promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in battle ... prevailed, the general had a glassmaker fashion a boot from glass to fulfill his promise without tasting his own feet and to avoid spoiling the beer in his ...
Famous quotes containing the words boots and/or beer:
“... if we take the universe of ‘fitting,’ countless coats ‘fit’ backs, and countless boots ‘fit’ feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones ‘fit’ gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions ‘fit’ realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.”
—William James (1842–1910)
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—P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)
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