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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!

I am currently reading City of Ravens: London, the Tower and Its Famous Birds. Part history, part deconstruction of myth, part bird study, this is a whimsical and highly readable little book. I have picked you out especially a beer-related teaser for today:

Since the seventeenth century, breweries in England had occasionally kept ravens as mascots out of a belief that ‘Where there are ravens there will be good beer.’ If we interpret this saying a little broadly, as one generally does with proverbs, the ‘good beer’ could mean ‘good fortune.’

This makes me want a raven for our garage brewery.

This quotation comes from an uncorrected advance proof and is subject to change.

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