Posts Tagged: Beer and Law
UK Labour Adds Two Dimensional Pub Minister
Posted by on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in - leave a comment
Wow. A Pub Minister for Britain! Great! Has he got a Ministry staffed with people who do work? No... but he has a ministerial task force, drawing on five Whitehall departments. Is he actually given the time and resources to make change? Well, there is that thing coming up... that election. The …
This Monday's Bullet Points Of Beery Interest
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2010 in - 2 comments
Ah, bullet points. When you haven't got enough for a post there's always enough for bullet points. They are the putting green to a round of 18. The hot dog to the BBQ. But enough of my lazy blogger admissions and let's see what is going on out there: • •Craft beer in the US had another good year …
Botswana To Regulate Traditional Beer
Posted by on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in - 1 comment
Traditional beer? The only solid access I've had to information about traditional beer drinking patterns in southern Africa is what I read a couple of years ago in Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals by Patrick McAllister. Botswana is apparently taking steps to bring traditional beer under the nation's …
Further Olympic Related Drinking Problems
Posted by on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 in - 5 comments
It is inevitable, I suppose, that folks get all whipped up and excited when the big event comes to their town but this is getting a little weird: • A B.C. government MLA is facing drunk-driving charges after an evening of Olympic-related events. In statement issued Tuesday afternoon, North …
If You Are Gonna Sin, Please Really Really Sin
Posted by on Friday, February 19, 2010 in - 2 comments
Maybe one day I will ask a bartender for a gin with a shot of whiskey as well as a splash of rum. But if I am ever in Nebraska I now know I don't dare add a dribble of beer to that cocktail: • A Prohibition-era law still on the books makes Nebraska the only U.S. state to ban bars from serving …
Ohio: Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Great Lakes, Cleveland
Posted by on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 in - 6 comments
What is it about Canadian craft brewers? American's have a brewery called Great Lakes on the south shore of Lake Erie so we need one on the north shore of Lake Ontario. We have a New Brunswick brewery that just happens to come up with styles and names for beers that have been used for years next …
Bloggers Bust "Very Special Beer" Thieves
Posted by on Monday, February 1, 2010 in - 2 comments
Very Special Beer crime. We know its out there. We had faith that there are VSB Units out there in the police departments of the land. Until today - when it became abundantly clear who is really watching out for those of us who would enjoy that very special beer: • Two Madbury teenagers charged …
Who Are The "We" In The Good Beer Community?
Posted by on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in - 14 comments
Martyn, the wise Zythophile, made an observation yesterday that includes a per-supposition that I am not sure has been explored: • It's not said often enough in this argument: we drink because we enjoy it, and the overall happiness that brings to society, I would suggest, vastly outweighs any …
Is It Required That I Box If I Drink Boxer Lager?
Posted by on Monday, January 18, 2010 in - 9 comments
We read in the Toronto Sun this morning that: • "Majit and Ravinder Minhas, the sister and brother who own the Minas Creek Brewing Company, received a letter from the AGCO in December about the name of their Boxer Lager. The complaint seems to centre on the beer’s name, which could be construed …
Canada Don't Need No Stinking Dutch Beer Parties
Posted by on Monday, November 2, 2009 in - 1 comment
It really is embarrassing sometimes, you know, explaining you are... errr... Canadian. Nice people, not ever really going to do anything too crazy people, the sort of people you can leave your car keys with. But just don't expect us to be able to keep up with those international madmen of fun, the …
