Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
Session 16: What I Really Hate About Beer Festivals
Posted by on Friday, June 6, 2008 in - 6 comments
Here we are again - another first Friday and another beery topic to talk about in The Session. Generally, I am a very cheery person. One who never finds any issue with anything. I look to the sunny side. I really do. I am so great. But beer fests bug the hell out of me. And here is why: • I … read more »
Limited Viennese Support For Beer At Euro 2008
Posted by on Monday, May 26, 2008 in - 3 comments
It appears that the whole "beer is the new wine" thing has yet to make it to Vienna, one of the centers of the impending 2008 European Fitba Championships where prices and access to good beer are being...errr...managed: • “"It is crazy. Completely idiotic," said Christian Habermueller, 35, who …
Tonight Is The Night To Drink Like A Finn!
Posted by on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 in - 1 comment
Have I ever told you my Finnish joke? I heard it years ago on a BBC World Service show on the cultural nature of Finns. The joke goes like this: • “Two Finns go to a cabin in the woods for a week of drinking. On the second day one Finn says to the other "shouldn't we have something to eat?" to …
Meta-Beer-Blogging...Or Watching Troy Watch Phin And Paul
Posted by on Sunday, April 27, 2008 in - 6 comments
BeerBistro! after all the people go to bed. • I had a great time Friday night. It was fun to meet the Southern Tier guys as well as the very dapper Liliana and Vlado, those great folk behind hosts Roland + Russell (who, by the way, I am starting to think were either two dusty Victorian-era … read more »
[Insert Beer] Wins [Insert Beer] Style Award
Posted by on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 in - 5 comments
I have no real complaint over the 12,474,832 awards that are handed out for beers every year. I have never paid any attention to these things when making beer selection decisions - though, to be fair, when a label mentions a claim to one of them I think of it as red flag worthy of further …
Do You Want To Meet Me? Really? Well , You Can Friday.
Posted by on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
...you know if you really have to. Because I will be attending a food and beer event being held at Toronto's The Academy of Spherical Arts in honour of Roland + Russell bringing Southern Tier IPA to Ontario. There is more information here and here. Events start at six but if you are the bailiff …
Notes From My Day Off Blogging But On Grilling
Posted by on Sunday, April 20, 2008 in - 5 comments
I have fallen into a habit of posting every day. I don't know when that started but I didn't so much not post yesterday on purpose as I had other things to do: driving guests around showing the town, organizing meat procurements, soaking ribs in Church-Key West Coast IPA, smoking and grilling …
Your Volstead Amendment Day Guide For This April 7th
Posted by on Monday, April 7, 2008 in - 5 comments
Every American Bar, circa April 6, 1933 • I was thinking of being all Grumpelstiltskin and point out...again...that this is not "Prohibition Repeal Day" but I thought the better of it. I thought people might say "how expected" or even "ho-hum" or maybe even stoop to use the word "weenie." How …
What Better Theme For A Festival Than Beer And Pie?
Posted by on Thursday, February 14, 2008 in - 8 comments
I have read with shocked surprise¹ important news this evening from the Beverly Guardian from the town of that name in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England: • “I READ that Beverley Town Council rate payment will be up by 25%, then it states where the cash will go. Whilst I endorse most of this …
Paul Goes To The 2007 Dove Beer Festival, Ipswich, England
Posted by on Thursday, December 6, 2007 in - leave a comment
Inspired by the lyrics of a song from the once hirsute folk-prog-rocker and role model for omni-pede flautists the world over, Ian Anderson, I trundled off to the Dove Beer Festival in Ipswich last Saturday, singing to myself "Let me bring you beers from the wood." There was a promise of six ales …
