Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
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 »
Evan And Stan On The State Of Italian Craft Beer
Posted by on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
There is a great article on Italian craft beer in The New York Times today by our friend and co-author around here by times, Evan Rail in which Stan makes an appearance as part of the Hieronymi's global search for great beer. The accompanying photo by Dave Yoder, copied above, is a study of how to …
Charleston Business Journal - Beer News Horn O'Plenty
Posted by on Monday, October 6, 2008 in - 2 comments
In amongst all the daily beer news items about this guy beating up that guy over a case of beer...or these guys passing a law that will never work to stop this guy beating up that guy over a case of beer...you find a gem like an article in the Charleston (Regional) Business Journal by Molly Parker …
What's Beer Worth In Papua New Guinea?
Posted by on Monday, September 22, 2008 in
No wonder folks say PNG. And what is someone called from there - it's probably Papa Guinenononan for all I know...or just Papan. But whatever it is, that nation's South Pacific Brewery of the National Capital District plays a huge economic role if this article is correct. It produces produced 53.3 …
Restricting You To Exactly...Errr...Way Too Much
Posted by on Sunday, September 7, 2008 in - 2 comments
Sure we all gripe about excessive laws controlling alcohol use form time to time but this one from Australia seems a bit weird because the restriction is, ummm, not very restrictive: • For the second year running, NSW Police and V8 Supercars have agreed to limit the amount of beer, wine and …
News Flash: Mongolian Beer News Update News
Posted by on Thursday, September 4, 2008 in - 2 comments
Not so much news about the Mongolian brewing industry but the fact that I have found a bit of news about beer in Mongolia at all. Last January, the news was not happy: police corruption, breweries shutting and a questionable reporter. Today's update in the Ulan Bator Post about the Chinggis …
More On The Irish Price Of Malting Barley
Posted by on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in - 8 comments
Ireland's beer blogger The Beer Nut noted it in yesterday's comments but the details are quite astounding as the maltsters for Guinness's owner Diageo are proposing a 20% cut in the price they will pay for the 2008 crop: • A spokesman for Greencore Malt, which supplies Diageo, said grain prices …
An Australian Complains About The State Of Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 20, 2008 in - 2 comments
This opinion piece in The Australian today speaks as much to the state of beer as the state of writing in newspapers in Australia. This extended quotation of James Jeffery's writing is remarkable both for its coarseness and its plainness about the moronic nature of the cult of globalized ice cold …
