Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
So Does "Community" Really Mean Conference + Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, May 5, 2012 in - 10 comments
You know how most people go to conferences not so much for the subject matter but to do something else in the evening, in another city where no amount of effort will help the kids get to their softball practices? Reading the various bits and pieces coming out of the Craft Brewers Conference being …
Brewers' Plate 2012 And My Happy Schooling
Posted by on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in - 6 comments
What a pleasant Wednesday. I ate. I sipped. I asked myself a lot about how people in downtown Toronto spend their Wednesday evenings. I did not think I got swept away in pairing mania but, and it is a subtle but so bear with me, there were many wonderful combinations to be found. • For example …
A Few Questions From Me About Brewers Plate 2012
Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2012 in - 4 comments
I'm not sure I ask good questions. Professionally, I have to be prepared to ask questions like "where were you on the night of June 27th, 1979?" or "would you agree with me that a bicycle pump and a hippopotamus are very different things, Mr. Jenkins?" Not that I do. I just have to be prepared. So …
Session Beer Day At My House Means Not So Much
Posted by on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in - 2 comments
Why? Because there is little good beer 4.5% and below to qualify under Lew's rule and exactly zero as far as I can tell for the more strident Law of Ding. I did make an effort and got myself to the LCBO today and picked up a couple Mill Street Organic Lager at 4.2% and two St. Peter's English Ales …
Brewers' Plate 2012 Is Coming Up In Two Weeks
Posted by on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 in - 8 comments
I am not one much for getting in the car and driving to Toronto. It's a bit of a haul and, frankly, when Montreal, Ottawa and Syracuse are all pretty much the same two hours plus or minus away it get hard to convince the family to go west given the delights to the east, north and south. But once … read more »
Rejected: "Good Beers Exist Which Are Not Real Ale"
Posted by on Sunday, April 1, 2012 in - 7 comments
Remember back in 1999 or 2003 when the thought the internet would change the balance of things and open up opportunities for "citizen journalists"? Silly wasn't it. Instead, we have newspapermen writing "blogs" and politicians (or at least their staff) yapping on Twitter as if they knew what they …
The Most Pointless St. Paddy's Day Story Is...
Posted by on Friday, March 16, 2012 in - 4 comments
...this one repeated by the CBC about a bartender in England: • Blakeney will often stand at the other end of the bar if any customer is sipping a Guinness. Her phobia of the popular brew was triggered when she spilled a pint of Guinness over herself as a child, she said. At six or seven, she …
Do Empty Beer Cans Hurt More Than Toilet Paper?
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2012 in - 2 comments
While this really should be a story for A Good Toilet Paper Blog or maybe a Becks Booster Blog, it is interesting to note the reference to beer in this story: • I would like to point out that there was no beer involved in this matter. The can is clearly empty. As this story shows, the can …
When There Is Too Much Going On Even For A Beer...
Posted by on Sunday, October 16, 2011 in - 9 comments
Between have a cold, having five kids and helping out with the fledgling North American Beer Writers Guild reincarnation... in addition to thinking about next year's Oktoberfest speakers series... in addition to the bright idea to start a web based concordance to The Oxford Companion to Beer …
More Great New Words To Describe Things Beery
Posted by on Monday, October 3, 2011 in - 2 comments
One of the more revitalizing things to come out of the weekend was the opportunity to listen to to people discuss beer. Whether in a conversation struck up with partying fans in the shuttle bus or more formally in the speakers' sessions, people were describing beer. We speak of beer as a social …
