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Posts tagged with drinking-age

July 1, 2010 | Beer Enthusiast

Puleese, Not Another Diatriabe? No. 148: Youth Drunking

By Fred Eckhardt

For many years I have babbled on, and at great length, about the terrible way we train our young people in the management of what is clearly one of our country’s greatest problems, that of youthful alcohol consumption. ...

January 1, 2009 | Beer Enthusiast

Yet Another Diatribe on Youth Drinking!

By Fred Eckhardt

Here in Oregon in 2003, a volunteer firefighter died in a strange accident. Shannon Halverson, 20, a new volunteer, was attending the Oregon Firefighter’s Association Conference party in June 2003. She was the only person there under 21 and the ...

September 1, 2007 | Beer Enthusiast

Diatribe No. 130: Three Percent?

By Fred Eckhardt

Yesterday’s newspaper offered information that all soda pop—including the so-called “diet” stuff and excepting maybe root beer—is destructive to tooth enamel. In other words, my old college swimming coach was perfectly correct when he told us, some 60 years ago, ...

May 1, 2006 | Beer Enthusiast

Diatribe No. 123: Coming of Age Properly

By Fred Eckhardt

There seems to be some slight momentum out there (in a few states), to consider the prospect of maybe thinking about the possibility of actually lowering the drinking age for our adult, under-21 military survivors of our wars in the ...

January 1, 2004 | Beer Enthusiast

Please—Not Again. Yes—Lower the Drinking Age

By Fred Eckhardt

Periodically, my daily newspaper, the Oregonian, presents another babblement on the drinking problems of our young people, often followed by a vicious editorial. It seems these troublesome youths drink alcoholic beverages, especially beer, with entirely too much gusto. These young ...

November 1, 2001 | Beer Enthusiast

And Yet Another Diatribe on Youth Drinking

By Fred Eckhardt

There’s a lovely invitation in a recent Schlafly Growler, a monthly newsletter put out by Tom Schlafly, owner of the Saint Louis Brewery and Tap Room. That’s the other St. Louis (MO) Brewery, the second largest brewery in that city. ...

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