Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Is Alcohol Use Actually A Sign Of Modernity?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 in - 2 comments
This little nugget caught my eye in an article about alcohol use in Turkey: • As people go along with modernization and economic and intellectual development, they become less conservative. The increase in alcohol consumption stands as proof of this. • I don't know if I fully accept this even …
Importing Yet Another Eastern Euopean Lager
Posted by on Monday, August 3, 2009 in - leave a comment
Interesting article in the business section of today's Old and Male about efforts to bring yet another eastern European Lager into Canadian beer stores. Apparently, the task will be more difficult than one might imagine given the host of former Warsaw pact nations already represented on the …
That Messy Messy Democracy That Is Beer Writing
Posted by on Saturday, August 1, 2009 in - 1 comment
Stan H. and E.S. Delia have both written posts in the last few hours that go to the very heart of beer blogging. Stan's post "The end of beer writing as we know it?" and Mr. Delia's "On Beer Writing" both explore the relationship between blogging - an amateur form of expression - with profession …
One Day Left On The Road And What Did I Learn?
Posted by on Saturday, July 11, 2009 in - 5 comments
Some years, these summer road trips to the sea seem like beer tours and sometimes holidays from thinking too much about beer. This one has turned out to be something of both. I did get a bit of a haul at both Tully's and Allagash with some sweet snabs like new to me Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien biere …
What Did Crocodile Dundee Teach Me About Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, May 17, 2009 in - leave a comment
I watched Crocodile Dundee last night. I didn't plan it. When I bought the DVD player a few years ago - quite behind the curve of technology I'll admit - I bought a stack of old '80s movies thinking that each would be a welcome way to spend an evening for the $3.99 plus microwave popcorn. Spinal …
Is This My Kind Of Church For Easter?
Posted by on Saturday, April 11, 2009 in - leave a comment
Lew shall sing. After all, it is Easter. I may drag myself out the door in the morning. You never know about these things. It's been a challenge since my teens. My father used to throw a chocolate egg at my head each Easter before he went off to give the sermon at church service and I continue my …
Please Don't Taste Your Beer Near Me
Posted by on Thursday, April 2, 2009 in - 8 comments
I am getting a wee bit tired of "tasting" beer. It is getting all too twee. This article in a Toronto rag of some sort or another displays everything that is wrong with the media's new relationship with beer and the concurrent looming over-preciousness of beer appreciation... or the over-wrought …
Extreme... X-Treme... X-Tre-m... XTRM... ?
Posted by on Sunday, March 29, 2009 in - 2 comments
Hub-bub. That is what is going on. There is hub-bub afoot these days about "extreme" beer. Here is what I know, though things may be changing on the fly, minute-by-minute as it were: • The Independent in England goes all yikes over BrewDog and other new strong beers even categorizing their …
Where There Is Beer There Is Peace
Posted by on Saturday, March 28, 2009 in - 3 comments
I have thought about this off and on. Making beer requires a farmer. It requires a facility which, at any economic scale, has always required a certain level of capital investment. It requires time. Time for the grain to grow and time for the yeast to do it's work. It requires safe transportation …
Wherein We Meet Today's Beer Drinking Dingbat
Posted by on Monday, March 23, 2009 in - 1 comment
I've celebrated the beer law hero of the day before so I suppose it is only fair from time to time that we point out those exceptional individuals who go beyond the call of duty and reinforce the stereotype of the beer drinking dingbat. To that end, I give you Mr. "I Have No Idea How It Got There …
