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PLAYBACK STL REVIEW OF "A NEW RELIGION IN MECCA" |
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You don't have to like the taste of beer to like the taste of the Schlafly Brewery monthly newsletter, The Growler. Owner/editor/tastemaker Tom Schlafly writes a rambling column that somehow manages, in the style of James Burke's defunct TV show Connections, to draw a line connecting seemingly disparate historical events to their modern effects. A typical glance at The Growler yields a history lesson in kings, queens, torture, war, Papal edicts, enlightened nobles and always, somehow or other, the current state of beer. That's why the new book by Schlafly, A New Religion in Mecca: Memoir of a Renegade Brewery in St. Louis, may just be more than just barley and vanity. |