Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Earth Hour Seems To Mean Beer Hour To Some
Posted by on Friday, March 26, 2010 in - 3 comments
"Spend an hour guzzling organic booze" says one story from Chicago. Gorkha Brewery in Kathmandu, Nepal is all set to support the Earth Hour, too. Heck even Molson Coors will "power down" for Earth Hour 2010. • I've never really caught the Earth Hour bug as I happily got rid of the second car …
The Women Every Real Canadian Male Has A Crush On...
Posted by on Friday, February 26, 2010 in - 4 comments
Truth be told, every Canadian male has a deep and abiding crush on every member of the woman's hockey team and photos of them drinking beer just feed the flame. We have commercials where the players kick doltish men like us all on the ice. They sell us social networking tech. While we have to work …
An Olympics And Beer Story That Makes Some Sense
Posted by on Friday, February 26, 2010 in - 16 comments
I still wonder what the average Latvian thinks about all this but at least this story makes a little more sense than needing to shut public booze sales and politicians drunk driving. Yet the International Olympic Committee is not amused: • Nearly an hour after the Canadians won their third …
Question: What Beer For Canada Against Russia?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 in - 3 comments
There are few phrases more evocative for a Canadian of my early middle age than "Canada Russia". • When I was nine I heard the final game of the 1972 series broadcast from Moscow on the car radio sitting in a parking lot in Middleton, NS. We won. We were not always successful in the … read more »
Olympic Celebrations One Big Binge-o-rama
Posted by on Sunday, February 21, 2010 in - 5 comments
Call the Neo-probes! Athletic competitions now proven to lead to binge drinking as Vancouver struggles to keep up with drunk jet setting gangs of cow bell ringers and fans of third-rate curlering nations. Jet setting Olympic public boozing is apparently something we are very good at in Canada …
Question: What Claims To Fame Can't Good Beer Make?
Posted by on Thursday, February 18, 2010 in - 5 comments
I think the forces of anti-neo-prohibition are at it again. I have never been sure who the anti-neo-prohibitionists are but that goes for neo-prohibitionists as well. They each stand for everything good as well as everything else and in the end look a lot like each other. Best of all, they aren't …
Has An Unacceptable Level Of Drinking Been Described?
Posted by on Sunday, January 17, 2010 in - 8 comments
Pete Brown has run a series of posts this week and last that delve into stats being issued by various government agencies and health lobby groups in the UK. It is important work that Pete is doing as there is no stat worse than the unexamined stat. Today's post was called "More Hilarity with …
Pounding Them Back Post-War Style
Posted by on Saturday, October 10, 2009 in - 4 comments
Jay has posted a good post. A very good post this week about a series of ads placed in post-WWII American magazines by the United States Brewers Foundation from 1945-1946. On first glance they are cheery and positive, warm and inviting, family friendly. The kind of thing that rarely gets trotted …
If Good Beer Were Popular Would You Be Sad?
Posted by on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in - 8 comments
One of the great things about a niche interest is that you can hug it and call it your own. You can define it anyway you want and no one is around to tell you that you are wrong. Yesterday, Mr. Delia made an excellent and related observation about how he fears craft beer is becoming hip when …
The "Church in the Pub" Sounds Not So Bad
Posted by on Saturday, September 19, 2009 in - 2 comments
I am a PK - preacher's kid. There. Now you know. That meant that events of the week in my teen life sometimes showed up in sermons. I expect you can guess the outcome. But I like church now even if it took me a couple of decades to get back. If there had been this sort of thing I wonder if it … read more »
