Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
This Monday's Bullet Points Of Beery Interest
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2010 in - 2 comments
Ah, bullet points. When you haven't got enough for a post there's always enough for bullet points. They are the putting green to a round of 18. The hot dog to the BBQ. But enough of my lazy blogger admissions and let's see what is going on out there: • Craft beer in the US had another good year …
Your Vital Japanese Third-Category Beer Update
Posted by on Sunday, January 31, 2010 in - 2 comments
We've discussed the beer-like substances of Japan before even though I have never had one. A story in today's' edition of the UK's Independent newspaper provides both an introduction and an update: • Japanese brewers are launching a range of new beers that tap into a growing taste for …
A Yuengling Can Helps Jail Criminal Gang
Posted by on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in - leave a comment
Not exactly a good beer news item but a good item in the news with a beer angle: a child porn ring was located due to a can of Yuengling Black and Tan appearing in one photo: • "There were clues in those images... The image-enhancement software showed that one of the adults involved had been …
Is This Denial Of "Local" At Its Finest?
Posted by on Sunday, April 12, 2009 in - 2 comments
I don't care too much for this or that claim of authenticity as most claims are sadly misplaced one way or another. But Stan and Daria have been on a global hunt to investigate one sort of claim to "authentic" that is relatively measurable: how local is it? Thinking of that, these new South … read more »
Military Family Fundraising Asks Aussies To Raise a Glass
Posted by on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 in - 6 comments
As you might imagine, this fund raising campaign starting today in Australia strikes the right chord with me: • Australians are being asked to buy a beer in honor of soldiers and sailors deployed to overseas troublespots in a new remembrance campaign designed to raise money for veteran support …
Rob Kasper Calls Out Canadian Craft Brewers
Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2009 in - 11 comments
I like Rob Kasper's beer column in the Baltimore Sun, "Kasper on Tap." It is to the point, is written from the consumer's point of view and often asks questions of the readership - like these in response to new data that shows Canadians are buying more and more US craft beer: • I think I …
But Who Gets To Receive and Read All Those Forms?
Posted by on Monday, February 16, 2009 in - 9 comments
I thought I had heard the dumbest law in relation to beer and bars, the since recinded "you can't stand and hold a beer in a bar in PEI" law. I hunt these dumb laws out and thought I had heard the best of them. Then I read this: "Utah is the only state that requires people to fill out an …
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 …
The Birth of Japan's Third-Category Beer Explained
Posted by on Friday, January 16, 2009 in - 6 comments
Wow. Just imagine the thrill I felt this evening when I came across a summary of the history and taxation based reason for Japan's dai-san biiru or third-category beer, as you know a minor fascination of mine. Thrill along with me to the genesis of the substance caused - as we see all too often …
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 »
