Get Ready for the GBBF
The 2010 Great British Beer Festival will take place August 3-7 at Earls Court in London.
To whet your appetite for this year’s fest, Welsh blogger “Arfur” has posted a photo album (203 images in all) of last year’s GBBF.
The Friday Mash (Payday Edition)
The 27th Amendment bars Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise. It was added to the Constitution after Michigan became the 38th state to give it the thumbs-up on this day in 1992.
If today is your payday, we hope you’re celebrating it with friends…and a pint of good beer.
And now…the Mash!
Barm, who blogs at I Might Have a Beer, broadened his knowledge of Real Ale by volunteering at a CAMRA beer festival.
Bad enough that rainy weather brings out mosquitoes. Now we learn that the little pests are attracted to the skin of beer drinkers.
From the Department of Minimalist Art: The 100th entry in the Brookston Beer Bulletin’s beer advertisement series is Budweiser Budvar’s classic “barley, hops, water, yeast” ads. Worth a look.
In case you missed it, Tuesday was Star Wars Day. To celebrate, Stephen Rich at Definitive Ale matched Star Wars characters with beer. It goes without saying that Darth Vader’s beverage was Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout.
The Stone Brewing Company took another step toward building a brewery in Europe. It issued what brewery officials calls the most arrogant RFP ever.
Crime might not pay, but sometimes it entertains. Noah Davis of Draft magazine has compiled a series of stories about beer criminals. Even for criminals, these guys are incredibly stupid.
Think your local beer laws are crazy? Try running a brewery in Pakistan. Rawalpindi’s Murree Brewery has managed to survive in this tough environment for 150 years.
Finally, tomorrow is National Homebrew Day. The American Homebrewers Association is celebrating with its annual Big Brew event.
Two Upcoming Southern Festivals
This Saturday, the Tuscaloosa chapter of Free the Hops presents Suds of the South, which will take place at Little Willies in Tuscaloosa. This afternoon event will feature beer from eight breweries from Alabama and neighboring states. Proceeds will benefit Free the Hops’s effort to modernize Alabama’s beer laws.
And on March 20, Abita Beer presents the inaugural Top of the Hops-North Shore Beer Festival, which will take place at the Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville. More than 125 beers are in the lineup, and there will be live entertainment and beer education sessions.
Hat tip: Mississippi Brew Blog.