Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
When Does Beer "Tasting" Simply Go Too Far?
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2010 in - 1 comment
Jay Brooks has written a thoughtful post about his impressions after a barley wine tasting session that takes extreme beer in another dimension altogether: • It’s a simple, if punishing format, where a new beer is opened roughly every five minutes over a period of several hours... Last year …
Olympic Celebrations One Big Binge-o-rama
Posted by on Sunday, February 21, 2010 in - 5 comments
Call the Neo-probes! Athletic competitions now proven to lead to binge drinking as Vancouver struggles to keep up with drunk jet setting gangs of cow bell ringers and fans of third-rate curlering nations. Jet setting Olympic public boozing is apparently something we are very good at in Canada …
Really? Is It Really That Unbelievable?
Posted by on Saturday, February 13, 2010 in - 3 comments
I have to admit that I never had any plan to attend the Vancouver Olympics given that they are thousands of miles from my part of Canada and, this weekend at least, I am in a region so vastly different from there - if only because there is snow on the ground and freezing temperatures. But if I … read more »
Have The Olympics Turned Me Off Beer Evangelizing?
Posted by on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in - 4 comments
While I think Pete makes a very good point about most people really not caring much about the quality or even qualities of what they drink, the news out of Vancouver has me wondering about whether I might ever go out to drink with Canadians ever again: • If there ever was a reason for …
So What Did You Think Of "Beer Wars" After The Show?
Posted by on Thursday, April 16, 2009 in - 27 comments
I got to thinking after being Mayor McMean of Meantown over Beer Wars the other day. I was a bit rude - even to the point Anat Baron, the filmmaker, jumped into the comments to defend the movie. I was reflective, even a bit chagrined. I usually think I use this my own bully pulpit more for the …
One April Night With Scandinavians In Toronto
Posted by on Sunday, March 22, 2009 in - 2 comments
I got a call from Vlado of Roland and Russell a few weeks ago with a plan: he wanted to get me to Toronto on April 15th, get me to Beerbistro and pour great Scandinavian beers into me as I eat wonderful food. Sadly (or rather happily) the life of the family man in the county town rarely provides …
My Seemingly Obligatory Thoughts On St. Patrick
Posted by on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in - 9 comments
Have a thought for Saint Patrick, the actual guy. Taken as a teen age slave from his native Wales to Ireland, familiar with all the details of Druidism from whose bondage he was destined to liberate the Irish race, able to paralyze those who would deter him from his mission and all we can do is … read more »
Women Soldiers Pictured Chugging Beer On Sunday
Posted by on Monday, February 2, 2009 in - 1 comment
It is such a rich image of freedom. Click for a bigger picture from the US Army's newspaper Stars and Stripes. The fact that it is Sunday, they are women, it is beer, it is chugged, it is the army and that the army publishes it. All good. Beer is a leveler, a sign of freedom, an innocent and sign …
Super Bowl: Raise A Toast To Those Who Cannot
Posted by on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 in - 5 comments
Beer. Military. It is an odd concern and a natural connection from long before Schweik. As my pal John at Castle Argghhh noted a few years ago, Frederick the Great believed that "many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer." And there is the third factor - sports. Up here … read more »
Update On Stan's Beery Conference Idea
Posted by on Friday, October 31, 2008 in - 3 comments
I've just finished another great conference (at least my third this month) and I checked back with Stan's blog post on the beer blog conference thingie and the clever people at Madison Beer Review posted this incredibly apt comment: • I’m not unopposed to the idea in theory. I am concerned that …
