Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Australian Natural Disaster Stops Beer Shipments Again
Posted by on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 in - 4 comments
I don't know why news from Australia about beer and its place in the culture seems so odd to my, frankly, more prudish than puritanical Canadian eyes but here is another item about a rough situation in the south-western part of the country in today's news...or is that tomorrow's...that is unlike …
Christmas In Oz: Mixing Too Much Beer With Texting
Posted by on Sunday, December 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
I had no idea that out antipodean cousins of the British Commonwealth, now looking forward to Christmas on the sunny beach rather than in a snowdrift as the Good Lord intended, were facing a holiday time pitfall beyond the North American tests of the office party or that least liked cousin …
Are The British Pub And Real Ale Too Closely Connected?
Posted by on Sunday, November 25, 2007 in - leave a comment
That is perhaps a backwards way of putting it but, given recent posts ranging from thought provocation to sheer ostrich posturing at the news that pub life is collapsing at a faster pace than ever in Britain, it is one that needs considering. If the pub is disappearing faster than ever, where will …
Where Beer And Not Alcohol Is The Particular Evil
Posted by on Sunday, November 18, 2007 in - 1 comment
This complaint by a fan at a southern US college football game reflects an interesting bit of anti-beer mania that I had not quite appreciated before: • “Garbage cans in the Grove served as final resting places for beer cans. It was harder to find a garbage can that didn't have beer cans in it …
Photos From My Visit To Jolly Pumpkin, Dexter, Michigan
Posted by on Friday, November 16, 2007 in - 2 comments
Click any picture for a bigger view. • It was a Ron-a-thon last Friday at Jolly Pumpkin. After leaving London, Ontario, Canada at about 1 pm and we hit Dexter, Michigan at about 5 pm just as Ron Jeffries was finishing up a days work. He gave me an hour of his time and by the end of it I was …
Ontario Craft Brewers Release Their Discovery Pack
Posted by on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in - leave a comment
The other week, I received a review copy of the Ontario Craft Brewer's Discovery Pack - a six pack that is now becoming available throughout Ontario featuring beers from six separate breweries. I have to point out that this blog is supported by the OCB as their logo to the left confirms. I also …
Session 9: When Beer And Music Shaped My Life
Posted by on Friday, November 2, 2007 in - leave a comment
A bit like Greg, when I thought about the topic for this month's edition of "The Session", hosted and proposed by Tomme Arthur of Lost Abbey, I was initially disappointed as this one's generality seems to be taking us another notch farther and farther away from the beer and nearer and nearer to a …
When Is It Right Not To Blog About Your Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, October 21, 2007 in - 1 comment
I took no notes. I had the camera but I took no pictures. The photo is from two years ago. • Even though you can blog about pretty much anything if you have a deft eye for the moment, I felt only a little guilty but blogging can get in the way of enjoying and I had such a day of craft beer and …
A Brewery, A Literary Tour And Another World All In One
Posted by on Monday, October 15, 2007 in - 10 comments
Her: I sure hope no one mentions this ever again. • Him: Me, too. How unlike us. Best to bottle it up. Pass me another. • An interesting combination of two of my interests may well come together in Nymburk, some 30 kilometers east of Prague, where a brewery, Postřižinský Pivovar, helps …
Come To Church - Have A Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 in - leave a comment
Being a PK - preacher's kid - I have an inordinate interest in stories like this one: • “Sutton’s popular preacher Rev Taffy Davies is handing out beer tokens to tempt his parishioners to a pub debate on religion. But his wacky offer could spark a holy war with a neighbouring cleric and his …
