Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Even The Recent Past Is A Foreign Country
Posted by on Saturday, May 11, 2013 in - 10 comments
It is quite the thing to realize how almost, well, a bit dull this 1995 ad for Guinness is when seen 18 years later. But, it was not shown at the time due to the theme of the gay couple: • In 1995, an ad created by Ogilvy and Mather for the ever popular Guinness beer never made its way to the …
Your Friday Night Beer Blog Reading Highlights
Posted by on Friday, May 10, 2013 in - leave a comment
It's a distracted time. The game between Toronto and Boston is interfering with the game between Toronto and Boston. The first thunderstorm of the spring is moving through giving parched seedlings out in the garden as heavier duties of life nibble at the back of the mind. Yet, it is a warm Friday …
Generally, I Don't Need Any Rewards For Having Beer
Posted by on Sunday, April 28, 2013 in - 4 comments
This is an interesting opinion piece in the Baltimore Post-Examiner about the role of the mobile app Untapped with the beer nerd author: • My experiences with this app continued to evolve. I know that I have had at least 829 unique beers since November 2010. So when I look at a draft board, and …
Aussie Labour Politicians Must Get Back To Beer
Posted by on Sunday, February 24, 2013 in - 1 comment
Even if we Canadians are their cousins in the glorious Commonwealth of Nations, some things about Aussie society and culture appear to be a wee bit unlike our ways here in the northern hemisphere kin. Like this sort of plea to political populism: • With the Gillard government struggling in the …
Differing Interpretations Of Half-Robed Lassies With Beer
Posted by on Thursday, December 27, 2012 in - 4 comments
Evan tweeted about a photo this morning of a poster of a breastfeeding French mother from maybe the last of the 1800s or the first bit of the 1900s. It's the one up there to the left. It got me speculating about the actual message being conveyed. We have all seen these sorts of beer for health …
Albany Ale: What The Heck Did Downtown Smell Like?
Posted by on Thursday, October 18, 2012 in - 10 comments
I've told you about the speed of smell thing, right? Maybe. Once I worked in an office building that had been emptied of staff waiting for a reno - except for my corner of one floor and the basement cafeteria. Oddly, they still were cooking for 273 down there even though there were only five of us …
Announcement: I Would Have A Beer With Mitt Romney
Posted by on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 in - 3 comments
Enough! There is a certain point where the pile on the goofy rich kid like we did in undergrad is not fun anymore. Worse is when Canadians weigh in and decide to kick the guy when he is down: • Mercer also weighed in on Mitt Romney's latest gaffe about the 47 per cent of Americans who don’t pay …
What Are The Corporate Values Of Beer?
Posted by on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in - 1 comment
I found this at Forbes entitled "Why More CEOs Should Drink Beer", a column about about that guy who said he had too much beer a bit, odd or at least unusual: • Mason is 31 years old and running a hot tech company in Chicago. Hot tech companies are filled with smart, young people like Mason who …
Why Do The Nations Differ On Beer Tax?
Posted by on Sunday, March 18, 2012 in - 8 comments
One of the oddest things for a Canadian to read about in that great beery conversation is the role of taxation. You would think that this would be a hot item if the Brewer's Association of Canada is correct when it makes this statement: • Canada, with an average tax rate of 50% on beer, is the …
Do Empty Beer Cans Hurt More Than Toilet Paper?
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2012 in - 2 comments
While this really should be a story for A Good Toilet Paper Blog or maybe a Becks Booster Blog, it is interesting to note the reference to beer in this story: • I would like to point out that there was no beer involved in this matter. The can is clearly empty. As this story shows, the can …
