Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
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 …
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 …
