{"id":16414,"date":"2017-05-23T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:27","slug":"matthew-bellamy-talks-beer-toronto-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/matthew-bellamy-talks-beer-toronto-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Bellamy Talks Beer with the Toronto Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Matthew Bellamy Talks Beer with the Toronto Sun\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The excerpt below is from the Toronto Sun article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/05\/20\/beer-love-affair-began-with-prohibition\">Beer love affair began with Prohibition<\/a>&#8221; by Antonella Artuso. The full article is available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/matt-bellamy-picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/matt-bellamy-picture1-240x270.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Bellamy\" class=\"wp-image-9155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/matt-bellamy-picture1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/matt-bellamy-picture1-160x180.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ontarians have had an all-consuming love affair with lager and long summer weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/matthew-j-bellamy\/\">Matthew Bellamy<\/a>, an associate professor at Carleton University, said beer and the outdoor lifestyle of Canadians were first linked circa 1925, when it was pitched as a lighter booze alternative in the waning days of Prohibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRemarkably, for most of our history, we were actually hard liquor drinkers. That was our alcoholic beverage of choice right up to Prohibition,\u201d Bellamy said. \u201cOne traveller actually estimated that we were drinking 11 litres of whiskey per person \u2013 that\u2019s every man, woman and child &#8211; in the 1850s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd you just need to look at the old images of Sir John A. Macdonald who was always rolling around in ditches after getting hammered on the stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To Prohibitionists, the three main types of alcohol \u2013 beer, wine and spirits \u2013 were all viewed equally as the \u201cthree poisons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excerpt below is from the Toronto Sun article &#8220;Beer love affair began with Prohibition&#8221; by Antonella Artuso. The full article is available online. Ontarians have had an all-consuming love affair with lager and long summer weekends. Matthew Bellamy, an associate professor at Carleton University, said beer and the outdoor lifestyle of Canadians were first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16416,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions\/16416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}