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Beer enjoys gourmet kudos
• Bevy of microbreweries
in Portland area draws
debate from residents
with less refined tastes.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — What does
it take to get a Miller Lite in this town?
Oregon has more microbreweries
per capita than any other place in the
nation, turning out all sorts of exotic
brews in hues of amber, brown and
black.
Nowadays, ordering up an ordinary
beer in some places can draw a
haughty stare.
“If you had the choice between
Spam and filet mignon, which would
you choose?” says beer drinker Spike
Cornelius. “That’s the problem with
the typical mass-produced American
beers — they’re insipid.”
In a town where loggers and salmon
fishermen once ended the day by guz
zling nickel brew in dark saloons, beer
geeks with goatees now sit behind
gleaming brass bars, swirling beer in
their glass like bordeaux and discussing
the finer points of hoppiness and drink-
ability.
“People never really considered beer
a cuisine before,” says Mike Sherwood,
director of the Oregon Brewers’ Guild.
“We’ve got juniper-flavored,
chamomile, rosemary, basil, raspberry
and lavender beers.”
“These are sipping-around-the-fire-
place-type beers. You don’t chug down
a six-pack of microbrew. It stays on the
palate a lot longer.”
Each year, Oregon’s 72 breweries
churn out 1 million kegs and more than
1,000 varieties of wheat beers, pale
ales, porters and stouts with such
names as Pyramid, Blue Heron and Ob
sidian.
At Portland-area supermarkets, mi
crobrews now account for 10 percent of
the market, compared with 3 percent
nationwide.
Beer aisles brim with apricot ales,
hazelnut stouts, blackberry wheat
beers, and honey-tinged lagers.
“It’s a lot different than it used to be
in high school and college,” says Steve
Uchida, 31. “The last time I had a
Miller was a couple years ago. I’m ma
turing as a drinker. Now I try to enjoy
the flavor of it.”
About 60 percent of all draft beers
poured at Portland bars are brewed lo
cally. There are still pockets of resis
tance.
At Patty’s Retreat, 55-year-old bar
maid Kay Scott pulls the handle on the
solitary tap and draws another pint of
Pabst Blue Ribbon. “I’ve had people
come in here and ask for microbrews,
and when I tell them what I’ve got,
they just walk out,” she says.
At the bar, old-timer Eugene McIn
tyre cradles his glass of pale yellow
suds and scoffs at gourmet beer.
“It’s a fad,” the 69-year-old says as
a Neil Diamond tune drones from the
jukebox. “I never drink the stuff. After
two beers, a man doesn’t really know
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NEW YORK (AP) — Frances
Godowsky, who tried out songs
for her brothers George and Ira
Gershwin before emerging as a
respected painter in her own
right, has died at age 92. She was
the last of the Gershwin siblings.
Godowsky was born on Man
hattan’s Lower East Side and be
gan her artistic career as a child
dancer. Known as Frankie Gersh
win, she never let her famous
brothers forget she initially made
more than they did — $40 a week
to their $15 from their Tin Pan Al
ley jobs.
While Godowsky sang in a few
Broadway shows in the 1920s,
she soon accepted the role of sup
porter to George, the composer.
and Ira, the lyricist. She often was
the first to sing Gershwin tunes
that would become Broadway
hits, giving them a test run in
George’s upper Manhattan apart
ment or experimenting with
dance steps he learned from Fred
Astaire.
Although his sister’s voice was
small by stage standards of the
day, George loved her interpreta
tion of his work and made her his
personal chanteuse. The two per
formed together at countless New
York parties in the 1920s and else
where.
In early 1928, she begged
George to bring her along on a
trip to Europe. She so impressed
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her, during which she sang
Gershwin numbers with George.
The limited engagement earned
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Godowsky re-emerged as
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daughter suggested she get vocal
training. She put out a widely
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Arthur Gershwin, who also
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