Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
For All The Bad News About Soccer Fans...
Posted by on Saturday, June 26, 2010 in - leave a comment
...It ain't all that bad. Sometimes - and more often than we think - it is a far less incident provoking experience than the media would have you expect: • Despite the long-standing rivalry between the teams, which meet in a last 16 clash at the Free State Stadium, everyone was basking in the …
I Am An Ontario Craft Beer Week Event
Posted by on Friday, June 18, 2010 in - 2 comments
I love it. Things are getting interesting. In response to Troy and Cass setting up a beer crawl, I asked and have been personally declared an Ontario Craft Beer Week event in my own right. Me. Not me going somewhere. Not even me doing something. Just me. Mr. Event. I had some Beau's in the back …
The Joy Of The Pub To One Who May Well Hate It
Posted by on Sunday, June 13, 2010 in - leave a comment
We beer geeks can be a bit too precious. We can forget that the joy of being in a bar is that you are in a place with other rules. Watching France v. Uruguay Friday in a neighbourhood pub, I was reminded of the din and the confusion, the sideshow of bar staff and the human churn that is a packed …
It's A Great Big Beer Drinking Pot!
Posted by on Friday, June 11, 2010 in - 1 comment
I had no idea until the opening ceremonies that Soccer City, the main stadium build for World Cup 2010 is a replica of a South African communal beer drinking pot - the calabash. Please refer to your copy of Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals for more details as to how to use one's own village's calabash.
Who Has The Greater Moral Right To Sell Me Beer?
Posted by on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in - 3 comments
I think I find this weirder than I might if I ran a pub or a CAMRA local branch but it seems to me that there might have been some unwritten unspoken arrangement between pubs and CAMRA not that far from CAMRA’s national administrative centre in St Albans, Hertfordshire if the pub owners quoted in …
That Oddly Named Canadian Holiday May Two-Four
Posted by on Saturday, May 22, 2010 in - 1 comment
The 24th of May does not need to fall on the May two-four weekend for it to be a holiday even if this year Monday will really be the 24th. As this food feature in the National Post implies, this holiday has become something of a celebration of beer for Canada. "Two-four" is our slang for a 24 …
What Would I Tell Ohio About Beer If I Could?
Posted by on Thursday, May 13, 2010 in - 3 comments
I got a very nice email this week inviting me to be a speaker at Ohio Brew Week. We've never been in southeast Ohio and July needed a new destination assigned to it so this may well happen. But what to talk about? What theme should I focus on? • Economics: walls filled with rapidly flashing … read more »
When Does Beer "Tasting" Simply Go Too Far?
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2010 in - 6 comments
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 »
