Posts Tagged: Festivals and Gatherings
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 …
Paul Goes To The 2007 Norwich Beer Festival
Posted by on Monday, November 5, 2007 in - 11 comments
I have a confession to make. I am the proud owner of a man-bag. A man-bag in fine green hemp. But when I toddled off to Norwich Beer Festival with my friend John just over a week ago in a repeat of last year's trip, I forsook the said bag for my trusty haversack. Most people's stereotypical beer …
Paul Goes To The Ipswich Beer Festival
Posted by on Monday, October 1, 2007 in - leave a comment
I lost my virginity in my hometown of Bury St Edmunds. I think it was in late spring of 1990. And my second beer festival was in September of that year in Ipswich. There was a hiatus for the Bury St Edmunds festival for a few years after that, which means that I've been to more Ipswich beer …
