Prohibition lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds too long. At least according to the Here's To Beer lobby in D.C. Maybe I'm missing something, but the web-site suggests it's a beer lobby.
It looks like January and February are the two months where we are missing a major beer festival. I suggest that, in order to become a more Civilized Western Society, we begin nominating places where a January and February festival could take place. Keep in mind climate, geography and lodging, and make a case for it.
Right off I'm thinking of Eastern Europe, somewhere in Bohemia. A friend of mine was through the Czech Republic about seven years ago and remarked that one could get a good sized glass of Pilzner Urquell for less than a dollar. The festival itself, being towards central and eastern Europe, would act as a taunt toward the Morality Imams of Mecca.
We'll all face east and raise glasses in toast for binary reason: we can taunt Mohommad while paying tribute to the first beer recipe that was discovered on a clay Babylonian tablet.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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Better a Beer Festival than a Bier Festival, any month of the year. If it takes a Lobby to raise a Stein, I'll toast to that.
As for insulting Mohammed, that is pretty hard to do. He made such a brouhaha out of making a virtue out of his vices that the usual gimmick of casting aspersions as to one's vices somehow really, badly, misses the point.
A Beer Festival in January or February in Prague? Too cold -- well, not by, say, Montana or Yukon standards, but still. Why not in Sydney? Is Foster's any better than a random Bud?
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