When does Yuletide begin? The first snow? The first child's question about Santa? Or is it the photo contest? Who knows. In any event, we are well and truly underway and have more announcements of prizes:
♦ New Jeff Alworth of Beervana, who is madly researching in Europe for his book The Beer Bible just picked up a Westy glass as well as a bottle of 12 for some lucky beer nerd who gets to choose either the vessel for every or the brew for one day.¹
♦ New Adrian Tierney-Jones and CAMRA have offered two copies of Great British Pubs.
♦ New Martyn Cornell, the Zythophile himself, has pledged a copy of his book Amber Gold and Black.
♦ Creemore Springs Brewery - whose prizes I covet. Are they the most generous?
♦ Maximiliano Bahnson, author of Prague: A Pisshead's Pub Guide and a guy I want to have a beer with.
♦ David Selden, 33 books the guide to taking your own drinking life seriously.
♦ Grand Teton Brewing of Idaho, a much welcomed newcomer to the contest.
♦ All About Beer magazine, a great supporter of this here thing.
♦ Narragansett Brewing, home of, yes, my favorite porter and another much welcomed newcomer to the contest.
♦ Roland and Russell, Ontario fine beer, spirits and wine importer.
♦ TAPS The Beer Magazine, one of our finest supporters year after year.
♦ Ron Pattinson, author and YouTube phenom.
More photos. John Lewington is first up. The picture up there is his take on a medieval morality play entitled "strong lager" - or "how I ended up sleeping on a bench in public during the middle of the day."
Peter Collins of Wesmore Digital in Cambridge Ontario has sent in these eight images for your consideration:
Sean Inman of Beer Search Party in, I think, LA Cali sent in this view to the right of a Christmas message hidden in plain view. And Kristin Mayo of North Carolina
has provided this reflective view to the left.
There. We are caught up for now. I still have more prize giving prospects to hit up and we need more entries, too. Send your eight best pictures to me at beerblog@gmail.com. The more of you, of course, the merrier.
Comments
Jeff Alworth - November 27, 2011 2:01 PM
That was supposed to be EITHER a glass or a 12, for I am greedy and my space limited, but apparently I'm feeling very generous.
Alan - November 27, 2011 2:20 PM
Oh, well. Yes, my fault. It's declared as an either, then. I will put the asterisk on the baseball.
Jeff Alworth - November 27, 2011 4:28 PM
We'll sort it out. No time to be grinchely.
Matt - November 28, 2011 9:03 PM
Hey Jeff,
Sounds like you're having a great trip, all in the name of research, eh? Just wanted to let you know I'm gunning for that bottle of Westy 12. I've got 3,038 beer photos poised in my Flickr account and Alan's gonna get 5 photos every minute until I get that prize!
Cheers,
Matt
Jeff Alworth - November 30, 2011 11:26 AM
Okay, I have an update. It will definitely only be a bottle of Westvleteren 12, for the glass broke in transit. Sorry! The good news is that the bottle made it safe and sound and is ready for mailing.
Matt, although I've offered up the bottle, you'll have to appeal to Alan's sense of aesthetics; he's the judge. If I were you, I'd find a toddler and a snowy field and place a beer bottle somewhere nearby. That's a McLeod slam dunk, methinks.
Alan - November 30, 2011 11:57 AM
Let us all have a moment of silence for the Westvleteren glass.
Matt - December 1, 2011 4:35 PM
Jeff, great idea! I've got plenty of beer bottles and I know of the perfect snowy field. Now the baby part... Can someone please loan me a baby I can prop up in the snow for an hour or so? It's for a good cause: me.