I am far too sick to taste a beer today. The slap back on this cold that has been doing the rounds has a real anesthetizing effect on the taste buds. I have resorted to eating sardines with habanero sauce to see if I can detect flavour. Not much happening. And I am too far gone to even imagine joining in a Snuggie bar crawl. So, what pops into my drowsy mind this evening?
- Isn't there a little something called a deep recession that might also be affecting UK beer sales?
- If I am going to make some decisions soon about where to place my meager retirement funds, should I think of investing in MolsonCoors or some such other now undervalued giant? Or do we need Kiva for craft brewers?
- Speaking of Kiva, I have been micro-lending to beer shops in the third world for a few months now. Tonight, people are having a beer in Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Mali and Peru because of me and my 25 buck investments.
- Apparently some people believe Obama may never ever have a beer ever.
- Wasn't it just a case of the need of beer and the lack of a good map?
- Is it really "time to stop selling beer like it's perfume"? I don't even know what that means? Are the British putting a little Stella behind their ears now?
- And who are these people that Ron is letting in into his Facebook life?
No more. Please no more. I need a nap. This is clearly incoherent. Fevered bullets. It's the Buckley's speaking.
Comments
mark - March 4, 2009 8:05 PM
Brother Al:
get well soon and keep drinking while thinking about drinking while thinking bout drinking.
shalom. Or as my sgt major liked to say while we were practicing our foot drill "let's go over the fine points of foot drill then later we will go over the fine pints"..err something like that.
your beery neighbour.
Alan - March 5, 2009 9:03 AM
My old bloggy pal Brian is with Obama. Good to see.
Todd - March 5, 2009 1:50 PM
I hope you recover soon and can start having your beer straight again.
Regarding the "selling beer like perfume" column, I couldn't get past "[Stella Artois] focused for two decades on provenance and quality." The audience for that column must be advertising types, not beer (enthusiasts, nerds, etc.).