This Friday, April 24, is Noc pivovarů (“Night of the breweries”) in the Czech lands. Some 45 breweries in Pilsen Region, Central Bohemia and Moravian Silesia will open their gates to visitors, with tastings, tours and Q&As with brewers, among other events.
www.pivniweb.cz/cs/noc-pivov...
The reply guy surfaces!
Perhaps “European” is best understood as "on the Continent” in this case. We don’t really see those products here very often.
More relevantly, I don’t think many small European manufacturers have added nitro widgets as an option to their canning lines.
Pretty interesting story about Italy’s first widget-can nitro beer, a “quite unique case in the European landscape.” Put together by Birrificio War in Lombardy and a small packaging company called Cime Careddu in Piedmont.
cronachedibirra.it/notizie/7701...
Praying for you.
Yeah, Fraktal was fun back in the day
Monday evenings in the basement bar (lowest level)
Lucky enough to have friends this long, and to be still among the quick
They’ve been serving gravity kegs from Knoblach (and others) for maybe 15 years now. Not a new thing here.
A bunch of people in a moody cellar bar in Prague with balloons that say “20.”
Prague’s best beer bar turned 20 years old today. We drained numerous gravity kegs of Knoblach (self-serve; have fun!), emptied endless platters of mini-schnitzels and said cheers to countless old friends. I’ve known most of these folks for over two decades. It was a time.
guys you're not going to believe this
I talked to a group of university students today about journalism, mentioning that I thought worker- / writer-owned publications were dope.
They hadn’t heard about them!
I gave shoutouts to:
@defector.com
@flaminghydra.com
@weareravenous.com
@coyotemedia.org
Who else should I tell them to look up?
i go on TikTok regularly enough to know that when a band has no resources, they're relying on more typical, stunty techniques to pick up social media relevance, which is characteristically different from "why are there suddenly fifty Geese accounts showing me the same Geese clips?"
Heading out for a press preview of the new William Kentridge show, with commentary by the artist himself, if you want to know how my week is going.
I mostly meant the way they handled the tragedy of a spouse and parent dying, with the “reveal” to his patient (and the viewer) as a plot device. Gross. Lazy. Trite.
Emotionally manipulative, but empty.
My little pro-bono project, www.successfulpitches.com is back online after some security and formatting issues. It's a resource to see what pitches that got commissioned look like. For folks new to the industry, it's a peek at what good ones look like.
Stopped after the first episode. Found the writing pretty slack.
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Not sure if that’s true for all Anglo-Saxons: nobody calls Lisa Marie Presley “Lisa.” Billie Joe Armstrong is Billie Joe to his friends and fans.
That said, I appreciate your point about naming conventions from other cultures. I certainly don’t get it right all of the time, either.
Deep respect for Lars Marius, whose name keeps getting foreshortened to "Lars” by folks who really could do better, and yet I’ve never seen him correct anyone about it.
This is a GOOD take.
This is not about beer, but I hope you'll click through anyway. We're about to go through a massive society-wide shift, and it has to do with the written word (the thing I understand even better than beer). So have a look.
One version included the part about bombing them into glass, along with something about then going over with some Windex to clean things up afterward. Maybe McCain, as someone else mentioned? (Also solid Gen X over here.)
I was trying to figure out why I don’t get many freelance travel writing assignments lately, despite the return of international tourism, which is now even larger than before the pandemic.
One reason: many magazines simply don’t exist anymore.
simpleflying.com/inflight-mag...
The OP was (or still is) in Europe, which is 6 hours ahead of the east coast.
I had the chance to talk about my new book, The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat In America, with Eric Schulze, who hosts Food Truths podcast.
You can hear it now wherever you find your pods.
thespoon.tech/food-truths/ (the link goes to the site, not a podcast....)
@coreyatad.com Found it on Kanopy
The Oregon Beer Awards were handed out last night, and I have some detailed notes on the winners, plus a reflection on the mood of the evening, which suggested a shift in the industry at large.
I’ve been meaning to rewatch it for decades, man, and my eldest (17) would probably really be into it now. So I guess I have to order the blu-ray, goddamit.
Roe: Smarty Pints event poster, for April 20, 6:30pm at Burke-Gilman Brewing. Background image of lots of beer hops on the vine, and an overlay of a graph with a noisy horizontal line with several vertical spikes, labeled “Burke’s Best Bitter”. Overlay text for the talk title, “Volatile compounds in cannabis, essential oils, and beer”, and the speaker, Jim Roe, analytical chemist, SoRSE Technology.
Brosi: Smarty Pints event poster, for April 20, 6:30pm at Burke-Gilman Brewing. Background image of an alpine meadow with a variety of wildflowers, and a circular image on top with a closeup of a bee on a yellow flower. Overlay text for the talk title, “Climate-driven plant-pollinator timing mismatches: Does biodiversity provide backup?”, and the speaker, Prof. Berry Brosi, UW Biology and Executive Director, MeadoWatch.
Spring has sprung, so we’re bringing you pollinators and weed(s) for Smarty Pints this month! On April 20 we’re back with more timely talks, on how changing snow conditions affect plants and their pollinators and on the chemistry of cannabis, beer, and essential oils. See you 6:30 in the taproom!
Alright, I’m about to set out on my third trip to Italy so far this year, for my first time back at Birrificio Italiano since early 2008.
Looking forward to meeting up with @atjbeer.bsky.social, @pintsandpanels.bsky.social and a bunch of other great beer people domani e lunedì.