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Hit by A Busch Lite wrote:
The Librarian wrote:

That's sissy beer.


It does has Sassy taste to it now that you mentioned it,
but not a sour sissy favor like one might find in Canadian beer
or French wine.

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I drink Local Texas brew, Llano or a couple from Austin or Mexican or
German Beer and I usually drink Texas wine. We have a fine winery over
in Comanche, one in Glen Dale and a vinyard in Rising Star. The French
wouldn't even have wine now if it weren't for Texas root stock.

"Munson's work enabled him to help save the European grape and wine
industry from devastating fungus and insect attacks. In the 1840s
European vineyards had been ravaged by the fungus parasite oidium.
During that time France suffered losses of nearly 80 percent of its
vines. The European wine industry imported native labrusca rootstock
from the United States, but these cuttings brought in phylloxera, a
plant louse, which attacked the slowly recovering vineyards. In 1868
phylloxera was discovered in southern France; more than 6 million acres
of vineyards were destroyed in France, Germany, and other regions of
Europe. The French wine industry, knowing of Munson's expertise,
requested that he send some of the grape hybrid rootstock that he had
developed during his studies at Denison. He shipped
phylloxera-resistant rootstock to France, where it was grafted with
varieties of European vinifera. Munson's work and that of another
horticulturalist, Hermann Jaeger, helped save the European wine
industry from total devastation. Because of Munson's role, the French
government in 1888 sent a delegation to Denison to confer on him the
French Legion of Honor Chevalier du Mérite Agricole. Munson also
received numerous other awards and honors. In 1898 he was elected as a
foreign corresponding member of the Société Nationale d'Agriculture
de France and as an honorary member in the Société des Viticulteurs
de France."

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