Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Session 9: When Beer And Music Shaped My Life
Posted by on Friday, November 2, 2007 in - leave a comment
A bit like Greg, when I thought about the topic for this month's edition of "The Session", hosted and proposed by Tomme Arthur of Lost Abbey, I was initially disappointed as this one's generality seems to be taking us another notch farther and farther away from the beer and nearer and nearer to a …
Beer Cocktails Revisited And Then Run From
Posted by on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 in - 4 comments
A while back we were all yapping about beer cocktails, meaning putting not-beer in beer to make something that allegedly improved beer. I was not moved. I called them signs of the end times. Today, hunting out a story I think I came across the shadow of the valley of death of beer cocktails …
Stonch's New Campaign: Don't Sell Out Beer Bloggers
Posted by on Sunday, September 23, 2007 in - 18 comments
Stonch has posted a post this morning which reaches across the seas and around the world like some fantasy of an Old Testament minor prophet, like a mad white bearded cloaked (and maybe a little smelly) wannabe Obadiah. Heed ye his warning, oh, beerbloggerati! So sayeth the man: • “...Having …
Beer Cocktails: Sign Of The Endtimes?
Posted by on Sunday, August 12, 2007 in - 9 comments
I think I have seen the future and I don't like it. It's not that I think that I am a particular cask-hugging purist or anything but this trend popping up at two Toronto beer bars just seems wrong somehow: • “At Bier Markt on the Esplanade, beer cocktails started to show up on the menu as a way …
The "Craft" Beer Debate
Posted by on Sunday, June 24, 2007 in - 4 comments
There is nothing slacker than a blogger blogging about what another blog is blogging about. But I am compelled this weekend by the advance in thought about "craft beer" that Lew Bryson has, characteristically, trigged and Stonch has expanded upon in relation to UK brewing. Just as Hobbes's …
Knut Invents The Beery Jetset Lifestyle
Posted by on Thursday, June 14, 2007 in - 1 comment
Travelling to Parma, Italy, is tiring at the best of times, whether you go there from Norway or just about anywhere else. There is a matter of a flight to Milan, which usually ends up at Malpensa, the largest airport. In my case this took two and a half hours plus an hour delay, and I was lucky …
Beer At The Movies
Posted by on Sunday, June 10, 2007 in - 6 comments
When I was just out of undergrad, I worked in Holland for a while and recall going to the movies where a very nice waitress came to the seats and asked to take our drinks orders. I found it quite shockingly different - mixing alcohol and films. Such a quiet Canadian upbringing I had had. Well it …
