Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
Day 10: Thanksgiving Day Photos Category Announced!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 in - 1 comment
Blame the inspiration from watching too many episodes of Man v. Food but I am going to break my own rule. You will recall my most precious long standing rule: • No photos of dishes of food with a beer next to it. They never win and they kinda make other people feel queasy. Your food is no better …
The Canadian Christmas Dipsomaniacs' Shopping Guide
Posted by on Saturday, November 13, 2010 in - 4 comments
I have always sorta thought booze does not make for much of a Christmas gift. Don't get me wrong. I like to hand them around with the support of any Christmas excuses going but are they really the gift or part of the event, the gathering itself? It's the latter for me. That being said, consider …
What To Drink With Canadian Thanksgiving Muskox?
Posted by on Sunday, October 10, 2010 in - 2 comments
OK, we don't actually eat Muskox for Thanksgiving in Canada. The world can't be that perfect apparently. We tend towards turkey with nods to joints of lamb and ham. We watch sports on TV, rake leaves if need be and, if I am indicative, have a nap after lunch after a morning in the pew. • All of …
Three Tales Of Beery Negativity Today
Posted by on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 in - 1 comment
It is a rare day that I do not feel that I am a little too negative. I should, frankly, find more reason to cheer up when thinking about beer. So, it was with some pleasure that I read others being crankier than me or at least turning a critical eye on good beer events and news: • Pete Brown is …
Toronto Beer Week Has Made Me Envious
Posted by on Monday, September 20, 2010 in - leave a comment
Well, the lack of satellite events a mere two hours drive to the east does disappoint me a little but seeing as the planning and now holding of Toronto Beer Week has gone from zero to sixty in such a short period of time it is hard not to be impressed. It's even on TV. Troy Burtch, one of those …
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 …
