Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Following The Hieronymi Around The World
Posted by on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in - leave a comment
I have to admit that beer blogging has given me far more than I have ever given it. Through beer blogging I have electronically met a particularly rich seam of the most gracious and generous folk in the English-speaking world. One of the finest is, of course, our pal Stan Hieronymus, author of … read more »
Happy Canada Day - Don't Forget To Drink Your Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in - 9 comments
It's a funny thing about beer and Canada. Canadians have this relationship to beer that is based entirely around the idea - largely erroneous - that our beer is better. So much so that it becomes a principle of our national existence as this article reminds us: • The poll, broken down into …
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 … read more »
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, who …
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 … read more »
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 …
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 …
