Posts Tagged: Beer and Culture
Reuters On North Korea's Secret Beer Making Capacity
Posted by on Monday, March 10, 2008 in - 7 comments
The latest brewing lassie imagery snuck out of North Korea, circa 2004. • An interesting article from Reuters today on one beer from North Korea, Taedonggang: • “After a hard day of contributing to the cult of personality around Asia's only communist dynasty and vexing the world with a nuclear …
Japan: Where Faith And Beer Come Together
Posted by on Sunday, January 27, 2008 in - 2 comments
Jay has been lamenting the divide between Southern Baptists and their beer. You know, it was darn pesky of the Lord to hang around in taverns and make wine when you think of it. In addition to the work, however, of Rev. Taffy Davis in Macclesfield, England, Jay found one US pastor who has followed …
Christmas In Oz: Mixing Too Much Beer With Texting
Posted by on Sunday, December 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
I had no idea that out antipodean cousins of the British Commonwealth, now looking forward to Christmas on the sunny beach rather than in a snowdrift as the Good Lord intended, were facing a holiday time pitfall beyond the North American tests of the office party or that least liked cousin …
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 …
