The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

A beer brewery in Houston, Texas, went out of business because of rats. At night, rats would walk along the rims of vats and taste the beer. They would become drunk and fall in. Unknowingly, the workers would bottle the beer for sale and it would not be uncommon to pull a rat out of one's beer can.

Submitter comment:

Informant--my uncle--claims that this story is true but . . .

Where learned: TEXAS ; HOUSTON