NYCO, my correspondent in Syracuse, alerted me to this Syracuse Post-Standard story about Polish beer. Written by Quill and Tankard award-winning writer, Don Cazentre, a staff writer with the paper, it notes what is new in the local market.
What a radical idea. Certainly in Canada, we are still so overwhelmed with the fear of beer - social ill, health hazard, harbinger of economic disaster - that such a simple report would be somewhat taboo or at least a bit of a visual shock. We are just not used to such things. Even the national Globe and Mail hides its wine column at the very back of the Style section while leaving that unimaginably bad page 3 of the section on...page 3.
Comments
ALan - October 22, 2004 2:06 pm
I just have to put a reply up. Empty active conversations look so sad. I may move comments over from the mother blog but maybe not.
nathan - October 23, 2004 1:00 am
Great idea for a site. And in one day you've already got more content than my blog. Rumors have it that some of the silverorange designers are excited about the possibilties of a beer-themed design... something with a bubbly top.
Alan - October 23, 2004 9:10 am
I have begun the beer related visuals education program. The difference between a rocky head and a dishwater head is not to be underestimated.
Dr_Funk - October 23, 2004 2:35 pm
Interesting stuff. Zywiec and Okocim are available at most large LCBO outlets. The others don't seem to be. Zywiec is a good summer beer and I found the label trick to be rather neat. If you're not familiar, here's how it works. There is a place on the bottle that is blank when the beer is warm. When the beer gets cold enough, the Zywiec logo becomes visible. Interesting stuff in the article about the local beers in Syracuse..though that is mostly academic for me since none of that is likely to make it up here.