Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Rob Kasper Calls Out Canadian Craft Brewers
Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2009 in - 13 comments
I like Rob Kasper's beer column in the Baltimore Sun, "Kasper on Tap." It is to the point, is written from the consumer's point of view and often asks questions of the readership - like these in response to new data that shows Canadians are buying more and more US craft beer: • I think I …
What Beer Cocktail Is Made With Buckley's Mixture?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 in - 3 comments
I am far too sick to taste a beer today. The slap back on this cold that has been doing the rounds has a real anesthetizing effect on the taste buds. I have resorted to eating sardines with habanero sauce to see if I can detect flavour. Not much happening. And I am too far gone to even imagine …
Is This The Most Important Beer Photo Of The Decade?
Posted by on Sunday, March 1, 2009 in - 6 comments
Sad but true. The mere fact that a US President has a beer in public creates the possibility of a policy argument. The AP's photo published in the UK's Daily Mail grabs the moment, shows something that happens millions of times a day yet when the relaxed figure is the new POTUS the moment is about …
There Are No Beer Louts Like The Louts Of Oz
Posted by on Saturday, January 24, 2009 in - 2 comments
Why is it that when I scan through Google news looking for new tales of beer to ponder all the beer brawl news does nothing for me...unless it is from Australia. Why? Because they brawl even over tennis, that's why: • When a simple tennis match can inflame tensions to the extent that chairs and …
Stan Asks A Good Question About Being Alone
Posted by on Monday, January 19, 2009 in - 3 comments
Stan has added his thoughts about the Twitter Taste Live event on Saturday night. He is still on the global beer jaunt that saw him drop by here last summer but was somewhere deep in the Florida everglades and so could not join in. He was thinking, however, and asks this: • ...all this … read more »
Pre-Drinking: What Is Old Is New Again
Posted by on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 in - 12 comments
I am not sure what it is about journalists these days but they seem to have entirely forgotten what life was like in the 1980s. People seem to think that, you know, the special friends relationship of hooking up was invented by those with a Blackberry and that facing economic tough times is …
We Used To Expect People To Publicly Pee In Comfort
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in - 3 comments
Blogging upon other people's bloggy observations is one other the lowest forms of blogging. Yet, when someone like Pete Brown goes about actually going to real events and doing things like taking a cask of IPA to India by boat, well, that is really more like conveying actual news … read more »
In These Hard Times, Japan Is Losing Its Taste For Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 in - 3 comments
This economic hard times theory of mine is taking its lumps in Japan - along with the sales of beer. But perhaps there are good reasons for beer not to be the affordable luxury in some circumstances, as Australia's ABC News reports: • ...Japan's declining economy shifted corporate structure and …
Australian Monarchists Hate Punning...
Posted by on Thursday, August 7, 2008 in - leave a comment
...or is it intentional spoonerisms...or is it, in fact, just all humour? Odd that Oz brewers Coopers should buckle under political pressure and take down their billboard ads which read "Forget the monarchy, support the publicans": • "It crossed a boundary, because it said 'Forget the Monarchy …
