Gloryville
Amager Bryghus

Dryhopped Hazy IPA

Ingredients: Water. Barley malts: Pilsner, Cara-Pils. Oat malt. Wheat malt. Hops: Columbus, Mosaic, Citra, Sultan, Galaxy. Yeast: London Fog.

Gloryville was an all-American ideal town set up in rural Maryland in 1952. It has been said that US Senator, Joseph McCarthy, was the man behind it, while the head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, dealt with all the practicalities. Most funding was federal, although a few private companies in the toothpaste and automobile business flagged proud sponsorships. The inhabitants of Gloryville were all white, married couples, preferably of Anglo Saxon or Scandinavian descent. No people of color whatsoever. And all of them good church-going Protestants. Although McCarthy himself was a Catholic, he always claimed that “there’s less hassle with the Protestants”. The whole idea behind Gloryville was to prove that, given the right circumstances, you can have people live a happy, carefree life without them turning to excesses like trade unions, communism or the Democratic Party. Protected from outside evil, people can bloom and reach a deeper fulfillment of the possibilities of their character or personality – all to the benefit of the greater good. Gloryville was big enough to employ all citizens within the town limits, and although not an island, completely severed from the outside world, the outside influence was limited, as the town had its own newspaper and broadcasting facilities. However, Gloryville was abandoned already in 1954 and the whole project was stamped “Classified” and buried in the FBI archives. The project folder was not declassified until 2004, and to the astonishment of many scientists within the sociological field, it turned out that the reason for the ideal town’s demise was given as “an abnormal high divorce rate, paired with an outbreak of syphilis”.