Suggestions for a New Years Eve

by Esmerelda Weatherwax (January 2012)

My preference would be for a nice glass of beer and, as you can imagine, there are many pubs named for, or with signs celebrating the brewing process.

These are, left to right, top to bottom:

You could drink wine, although why would you want to, when there is beer.

The Saxon Horn gets its name from one of the several glass drinking horns excavated from burials in and around Rainham and Dagenham. One of these (left) is in the British museum, delicate workmanship more appropriate for a Saxon lady to use to sip Rhenish wine, than the quaffing of vast quantities of ale or mead suggested in the sign.

Happy New Year.

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