Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - QUOTE: His Courtroom was also his Saloon

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http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/...ans_saloon.jpg“Roy Bean gave cold-blooded killers, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves no mercy. ‘Court’s in session,’ he would announce, and then delivered his sentence without pausing: ‘To be hanged by the neck until dead.’ As each trial ended, he would serve up cold beer all around; his courtroom was also his saloon.”

From*The American West*by Dee Brown, 1995.
QUOTE: His Courtroom was also his Saloon from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007


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