Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
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 »
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 …
