Posts Tagged: England and English Styles
PGP 6.0: London Skittles Mania Strikes Nation
Posted by on Sunday, April 25, 2010 in - 1 comment
Not really. Not really at all. But as I am fascinated by the idea of London Skittles I can dream. I am fascinated by skittles, I think, as a pub game primarily because of the act of throwing a fairly heavy weight accompanies the act of drinking beer. We don't do that much anymore. We really don't …
UK's LibDem's Go Handbags On 2D Pub Minister Stuff
Posted by on Monday, April 19, 2010 in - 2 comments
I was not impressed when the UK's Labour government, now third in the polling for next month's election, announced their Minister of the Tavern idea a mere 675 or so weeks after they gained power. It appears that I am not alone, that the centrist Liberal Democrats, now near first place in the …
Friendly Welcoming Conservative Evangelical Churches
Posted by on Thursday, April 8, 2010 in - 4 comments
That is what the website says: "[w]e are three friendly and welcoming conservative evangelical churches, committed to hearing God speak through the Bible and prayer." That is great. I am a church going guy and the son of a minister so I like to read that happy positive sorta stuff. I especially …
Sometimes A Beer Is Not Just The Thing...
Posted by on Sunday, March 28, 2010 in - 2 comments
Pity the poor dope who for one tiny moment though he was doing the right thing to make up for the bad thing only to find himself, again, doing the bad thing: • Police have apologised to a family after smashing down their door by mistake, then later offering a bottle of beer and some flowers to …
The British Breakfast Bar Makes Sense To Me
Posted by on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in - 7 comments
I hadn't realized that alcohol sales were actually illegal here in Ontario before 11 am until I did a bit of a hospitality training session last year. We are barred from beer and breakfast. I just hadn't been out looking for a mid-moring drink, I guess. Things are different elsewhere. Not only is …
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 …
Where Are We With The Price Of Inputs In Early 2010?
Posted by on Thursday, January 28, 2010 in - 1 comment
Inputs. Or as the Teutonics might say "ingapüts". It's the short form for the costs of things that go into your beer. When the price of hops and malt went north in October 2007, we started reminding ourselves that when we are told costs have gone up we better check whether prices in fact have gone …
FTW: My Lamb's Wool Express Ale Mulling Experiment
Posted by on Thursday, January 14, 2010 in - 6 comments
I finally got around to making that Lamb's Wool, an 18th century form of English mulled beer that I wanted to try to make over Christmas. But I never found the time to core the apples, bake the apples, heat the beer, baste the apples and sit down to a meal of hot backed apples and mulled beer …
Don't Forget To Heat Your Beer For Christmas
Posted by on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 in - leave a comment
The Washington Post introduced a piece on Christmas ales today with a reminder that they harken back to the pre-Puritan days of England, days of steaming bowls of hot spiced ale and shorter life spans: • ... originally, the word -- from the Middle English greeting "waes haeil," or "be hearty" …
