Posts Tagged: England and English Styles
I Drink My Beer At Home Where I Don't Have To Tip
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2011 in - 18 comments
The Britons are about to tip the scale. Not break a camel's back with a straw. And not move past a tipping point where everything immediately flops and flows from here to there. Just one more little incremental shift that makes assumptions more of the "ass, you and me" sort: • Back in the 1970s …
Some Beery Links For The Dog Days Of Summer
Posted by on Thursday, August 18, 2011 in - 6 comments
Notice there isn't much going on? I know I have. It is slow. Then I realized it's because everyone is on vacation. I am just back and, I have to admit, my brain is still in patio "yes, I will have some more" mode. I blame waiters. And waitresses. They bring you stuff you want and all they want in …
Global #IPAday! It's Global #IPAday!! Global #IPAday!!!
Posted by on Thursday, August 4, 2011 in - 7 comments
Global #IPAday. That's what it needs to be called. I don't like the implications of international #IPAday. It leaves out the stateless and those on ships at sea beyond territorial waters. And, really, isn't that what #IPAday is all about? Inclusion? Or is it exclusion? Who knows. Here are some …
Does The Speaker, In Fact, Love A Cross Eyed Dog?
Posted by on Thursday, July 28, 2011 in - 13 comments
A great old thread is going on over at Tandleman's place where I may find myself stepping on British toes due to a combination of curiosity about the unknown, blindness to good manners and a bit of poking the bee hive with a stick. Nothing like making a res ipsa loquitor self-evidence comment and …
People At The Beer Festival Will Stick To The Familiar
Posted by on Friday, July 22, 2011 in - 8 comments
I am happy that this week's CAMRA and BrewDog discussion has given the opportunity for we who are not familiar with the workings of the organization some insights. This morning there have been a load of Twitter activity (oxymoron alert!!) about the Great British Beer Festival including more than a …
I Really Should Declare A Beer Drinker Of The Year
Posted by on Monday, July 18, 2011 in - 9 comments
I know it is tedious and self-serving for an organization to announce something like this but maybe it's time for there to be an annual A Good Beer Blog beer drinker of the year. Consider this announcement by the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group: • Michelin starred chef Sriram Aylur of …
PGP 9.0: Britain's PM Has A Post Ale Go At Aunt Sally
Posted by on Sunday, July 10, 2011 in - 1 comment
I love it. I have always thought the pub game called "Aunt Sally" was the least identified and most offensive continuing recreational tradition amongst the English-speaking peoples and, but except for maybe the Queen having a go, Mr. Cameron's attack on a defenseless image of an elderly lady …
CAMRA-tantrum 2011: The Gift That Keeps Giving
Posted by on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 in - 9 comments
It's starting to look like the case of the guy with the girlfriends with an ugly tattoo. She may be nice, a kind and pretty, be a real stand by her man sort of gal and all that stuff. But that sure is an ugly tattoo. Mr. B's contribution was particularly fun: "...Jay Brooks and I went on a tear of …
Is CAMRA Run By Puristans Or Precisionists?
Posted by on Saturday, May 28, 2011 in - 19 comments
That is surely an unkind thing to say but recently I read a fascinating book about the first leader of the good if extreme folk who settled Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1600s. In that book, I came upon the distinction between "puritanism" and "precisionism" which boiled down to the …
What A Perfect Day For A Meta-Meta-Discussion!
Posted by on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in - 4 comments
An interesting comparison today between two communities of beer bloggy types. With a hearty hat tip to Stan, I see, Mark Dredge in England considers the hobby of amateur writing about professional beers and brewing to be incredibly important. Sure, he is yet to come down after a successful …
