Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
It's Beer And Sausage Week At Finland's Cottages
Posted by on Thursday, June 23, 2011 in - 2 comments
I can't tell you my Finnish joke because I told you in 2008. It was in a post entitled "Tonight Is The Night To Drink Like A Finn!" but I now understand that this week is the week to drink - and eat - like a Finn: • The amount of sausage Finns consume during the Midsummer week is approximately …
What A Perfect Day For A Meta-Meta-Discussion!
Posted by on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in - 4 comments
An interesting comparison today between two communities of beer bloggy types. With a hearty hat tip to Stan, I see, Mark Dredge in England considers the hobby of amateur writing about professional beers and brewing to be incredibly important. Sure, he is yet to come down after a successful …
All That Base Ball Was Really About That Pitcher
Posted by on Sunday, May 8, 2011 in - 3 comments
I indulged in my other odd hobby yesterday. 1860s - 70s base ball. Two words. No gloves. No sliding. The ball springs off the bat with about as much zip as an Edam cheese would. Underhand pitching and bats that are like swinging a 2 x 4 fresh from the lumber yard. I put the thing together with …
Pile On The Royals! Pile On The Royals!!!
Posted by on Saturday, April 23, 2011 in - 6 comments
Being out here in the Commonwealth, we have the ability to laugh about these sorts of things: • The sad, toady breweries who bowed and scraped and made a special beer to celebrate the marriage of William Windsor and Kate Middleton got a slap in the face as thanks for their pathetic grovelling …
Lew On Beer, Good Friday And Being A Lamp
Posted by on Friday, April 22, 2011 in - 3 comments
Being born of dour Scots Presbyterians and marrying into a clan of the same with the tartan set at a particularly dull tone of grey, Lew's post today rocks the very fibers of the traditions of faith as me and mine know it. And does so wonderfully well: • ...it's a fast day, and while I'm not …
Why Can't They Hold Championship Games On Saturday?
Posted by on Sunday, February 6, 2011 in - 1 comment
I don't usually have a beer or anything much on Sunday or the first half of the week for that matter. One of the things that keeps me from wanting to move into more professional beer writing, consulting and that sort of thing is having to drink and attend and consider every day of the week. I have …
Breaking News: Their First Beer Festival In 400 Years
Posted by on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 in - 5 comments
Big news out of Lyme Regis in Dorset, England as they are reviving or at least reinterpreting a festival that ended back in 1610. • The ale will be in full flow at Lyme Regis when the town hosts its first beer festival in 400 years. A festival called The Cobb Ale started in Lyme in the 14th …
Liveblog: Happy New Year And Thanks For Saying Hello!
Posted by on Friday, December 31, 2010 in - 6 comments
It's been a good year at A Good Beer Blog - and a good decade while we are at it. As this is the last day that has a claim to being the end of the first ten of the millennium, we could reflect on where good beer was at the dawn of this new era and where it is now. We could but we won't. Because it …
Two Food And Beer Revelations At Christmas
Posted by on Sunday, December 26, 2010 in - 3 comments
Look, I really do not like the whole idea of pairing beer and food. You know that. It comes off as a wee bit snooty and, worse, it smacks a bit of exclusivity... but that has nothing to do with the fact that beer and food go so well together (or whether I am riddled with inconsistencies.) And … read more »
Twenty Years Ago, A Christmas Eve In Scotland
Posted by on Friday, December 24, 2010 in - 4 comments
One of my favorite Christmas Eves was twenty years ago tonight, in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. I was visiting my uncle, auntie and cousins and had settled into a week long stay. It didn't take long for it to seem like to everyone in the village I was that "coosin frae Gan-ee-der." People …
