Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
The Brewery Global Warming Will Destroy
Posted by on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 in - 4 comments
Interesting read about a brewery in Greenland, the Greenland Brewhouse, that is making beer from pure icecap...or rather free-range bergybits: • According to the company’s website, it only uses ice from icebergs, which have already broken off the main inland ice and are floating in the fjords …
More Vital Information On Third-Category Beer
Posted by on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in - 2 comments
I suppose that if I ever tried it or if it had a name that did not sound like something out of Blade Runner I would have less of a facination with that fluid in Japan that is called "third category beer." This article in the The The Daily Yomiuri, however, is full of tidbits that make me wonder …
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 …
A Romp Around The Internet As The Red Sox Play
Posted by on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
Now that I have got some key relief for my case of internetum tremens, I can refocus on my other mild case of addiction and think about beer again. There's plenty going on this evening as Bartolo Colon starts his Red Sox career against the Royals. A shining model for all of we who are not wee …
Nothing Says "Yum!" Like Third-Category Beer
Posted by on Sunday, May 18, 2008 in - 2 comments
While little translates as badly as regulatory text in another language from another country, there is a special place in my heart for Japan and its "third-category" beer which are described as nonmalt beerlike alcoholic beverages. Not third-rate. Third-category. Mmmmm. But apparently the average …
Book Review: CAMRA's Good Beer Guide West Coast USA
Posted by on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 in - 6 comments
This is a funny book. Guide books can be. You see they are to guide people from "X" around about a little old place we like to call "Y". If you are from "X" or "Y", you are likely going to understand what's going on but if you are not it gets to be a bit of an exercise in cultural anthropology …
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 …
Russian Bar Snacks Are My Bar Snacks!
Posted by on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in - 9 comments
When I lived in Poland back in 1991, I loved the food. I was warned that the post-Soviet economy would mean line ups, inflated prices and scarcity. Nothing could be further from the truth for the experience I had in my Baltic resort city of Kolobrzeg. But even with the zap-shacks, bigos domovi …
Oklahoma Wholesalers Ask To Lower Standards
Posted by on Friday, March 21, 2008 in - 1 comment
This is about as pathetic as it can get. In Oklahoma, beer wholesalers have lobbied to be excused from some of the most basic requirements of their obligation to provide the public with good beer in good condition: • “...one beer supplier told commission members his company recently bought back …
Reuters On North Korea's Secret Beer Making Capacity
Posted by on Monday, March 10, 2008 in - 7 comments
The latest brewing lassie imagery snuck out of North Korea, circa 2004. • An interesting article from Reuters today on one beer from North Korea, Taedonggang: • “After a hard day of contributing to the cult of personality around Asia's only communist dynasty and vexing the world with a nuclear …
