Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
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 …
Stan Proposes A Beery Conference And I Agree
Posted by on Saturday, October 25, 2008 in - 2 comments
This is a good idea and, frankly, would be the second annual as I held the first annual in my basement this summer with four attendees. I countered in his comments with a few ideas of how such a thing could work: • Do not hold it around one event in one venue. Too compressed. Too manic. Not …
On The Road...If You Didn't Notice
Posted by on Friday, October 17, 2008 in - 1 comment
I am in PEI at a conference and typing this on a borrowed iPod. Saison Dupont 5.75 for 750 ml in Quebec. Nice. • Err...iPhone...
Knut Visits The European Beer Festival In Copenhagen
Posted by on Sunday, September 21, 2008 in - 1 comment
Copenhagen. The first taste of something cosmopolitan and sophisticated for us Norwegians or, at least it used to be. Sure, we had been to the Steen + Strøm department store in Oslo to ride the escalators, but this was way beyond that. Palaces and castles, parks with peacocks. Zoo and the Tivoli …
The Hieronymi Were Here...As Were Steve and John!
Posted by on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
So beer writers Stan and Daria and family were here getting a break from the camper on their world beer tour 2008. As it turned out, so were Steve from Beau's and John o' Church-key. Between them the lads drove 500 km to get here and as much to get home - nothing compared, however, to the … read more »
Why No North American Beer Consumer Group?
Posted by on Thursday, June 19, 2008 in - 7 comments
The Morning Advertiser gives the news today of a European Beer Consumers Union constitution which will be signed on 24 June. It sounds rather official: • “The over-riding aim of the organisation is to ensure there will still be a wide choice of craft brewed beers available for future generations …
One Upstate Brewpub That I've Never Heard And May Not Visit
Posted by on Sunday, June 8, 2008 in - 5 comments
...because I can't get on base! • Who knew that there was Busters Brew Pub and Microbrewery on the US army base at Fort Drum in upstate NY? Not me. But there they were making an impression as they were pouring beer at the first Sackets Harbor 1812 Beer and Wine Festival as reported in the …
