Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Beer Rules: One Of These Things's Not Like The Others
Posted by on Monday, September 26, 2011 in - 7 comments
The implicit ethics of beer. Cultural, community, individual ethics. It is one of those things that brings me back to thinking about beer over and over. Sure, I drink the stuff but isn't it far more interesting what people think that the stuff means? Contextually, the same fluid can bean award, a …
Once Again, Canadian Politicians Endorse Beer
Posted by on Thursday, September 15, 2011 in - leave a comment
Tony Saxon of the Guelph Mercury got the picture that tells the tale. Ontario's Conservative leader, Tim Hudak, serving out the beer during the early days of this provincial election. Mid-week at the end of the work day, it's a classic Canadian political scene. He looks comfortable. Like the …
I Drink My Beer At Home Where I Don't Have To Tip
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2011 in - 18 comments
The Britons are about to tip the scale. Not break a camel's back with a straw. And not move past a tipping point where everything immediately flops and flows from here to there. Just one more little incremental shift that makes assumptions more of the "ass, you and me" sort: • Back in the 1970s …
Which Hemishpere Is The Best Beer Hemisphere?
Posted by on Saturday, August 27, 2011 in - 4 comments
After an evening of craft beer disappointment - or perhaps just infanticide - I was wonder what is going wrong with me lately. I don't really crave another new saison even if some are surprisingly good. I would maybe feel different if I could ever get up to this sort of thing. • Arguments don't …
Oz's "Convoy Of No Confidence" Needs Its Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 in - leave a comment
I am starting to think that for Australians, access to beer is not unlike the NRA's position on the right to bear arms: it is fundamental to a free and democratic society. Consider this political protest: • About 11 separate convoys from as far as Western Australia and the Northern Territory are …
When Government Shuts Does The Beer Stop?
Posted by on Thursday, July 14, 2011 in - 10 comments
Throughout the reporting on the economic crisis in Greece, I keep hearing reports of the ending of social cohesion, the end of that pact we have with each other, the beginning of the guy with the ammo is king. I expect it will pass because at the end of the day, you can always have a beer... right …
Canucks In Afghanistan Get US Brew For UK Wedding
Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in - 3 comments
When I were a lad, the idea of shipping Bud to Canadian forces in the field would be somewhere between an insult and an joke that didn't make all that much sense. So much for the prejudices of my youth. Apparently, the Canadian troops in Afghanistan needed flats of the iconic American light lager …
Polling Canada's Beer Consumers Via Twitter
Posted by on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 in - 2 comments
I am enjoying watching the results of a Twitter-based information gathering effort under the hash tag #BeerEh. What seems to be going on is a wide-raging study into the Great White North's beer consumer mindset and it is playing out in a number of ways. For example, what might be originally … read more »
Two Cautionary Tales Of Good Beer Bad Behaviour
Posted by on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 in - 16 comments
We like to ascribe so many positive things to good beer and those who love it we often forget that we make most of it up. We pretend brewers are rock stars. We pretend thinking about beer began (and sorta stopped) in the 1970s. But most of all we pretend people who make and enjoy craft beer are … read more »
Ontarians Apparently Find Returning Bottles Offensive
Posted by on Sunday, June 19, 2011 in - 2 comments
Out of all the many confused messages that Ontarians are subject to about beer and booze consumption, this has to be the stupidest: • The policy at the Liberty Village outlet is specific to that location, said Jeff Newton, a spokesman for The Beer Store. “This is a very unique store. It is an …
