Today at noon the mayor of Munich tapped the ceremonial keg to kick off Oktoberfest. The My Destination travel blog has created an interesting infographic (I confess I love these type of things) with the statistics of just how much food and drink was consumed at last year’s folk festival.
Today in 1960, Mali gained their Independence from France.
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Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%
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Patterns of Drinking Score: 2
Prohibition: None
Friday’s ad is again from perhaps the 1950s, a third one for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. It uses the slogan “more flavor, less filling, more fun!” THis one has a third different model making faces to express each idea. Hilarious, that’s Big D. Yet again.
Today in 1964, Malta gained their Independence from the United Kingdom.
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Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%
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Today in 1981, Belize gained their Independence from the United Kingdom.
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Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: Belize Agricultural Health Authority
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Labels must include the following information: Name of food or beverage; Name and address of themanufacturer; Net contents and weight/volume; Country of origin; Batch/lot identification number; Date marketing; Storage instructions; and List of ingredients in descending order.
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%
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Patterns of Drinking Score: 4
Prohibition: None
I know I should be complaining that the Ian Fleming character James Bond would never drink Heineken — and I have in the past — but this new commercial for Heineken, which debuted today, is too much fun. I’ve been a huge Bond fan since my dad took me to see Thunderball in the theater when I was six. So this is an especially fun ad since it features items, and people, from previous Bond films. How many can you spot?
Thursday’s ad is from perhaps the 1950s, another one for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. It also uses the slogan “more flavor, less filling, more fun!” THis one has a different model making faces to express each idea. Hilarious, that’s Big D. Again.
The Bistro, in Hayward, California, has been an institution for … well, eighteen years. They put on four niche festivals each year — Double IPA, IPA, Wet Hop and Wood Aged — plus a hops rhizome event. Tomorrow they’re celebrating their 18th anniversary, not with a whimper, but a bang.
On tap, they’ll have some classic beers, such as Anchor Christmas Ale 1999 and in bottles, such rarities as a vertical tasting of North Coast Old Stock from 2000 until the present vintage, Unibroue’s anniversary ale, from 2004 to 2007. They’ll also have bottles of Russian River Brewing’s first bottling of batch 23 — circa 2007 — and Avery The Beast 2008 to name just a few.
There will be live music at the pub, beginning at 4:30, with The Hipbones, who first played here in 1997, The Travis Larson Band, along with special guest from Canada, Dave Martone.
The festivities start when they open at 10:30. Should be a great time. Happy 18th Vic and Cynthia!
Bistro owners Cynthia and Vic Kralj announcing the winners of the 2009 Double IPA Festival.
Today in 1990, South Ossetia declared their Independence from Georgia, though it remains unrecognized by most nations.
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Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%
Beer in Ossetian Mythology: Uacilla (Уацилла; “Saint Elijah”). Also spelled Wasilla. God of rain, thunder and lightning. As protector of the harvest he is known as Хоры Уацилла (Hory Uacilla, “Uacilla of the wheat”). Anyone struck by lightning was considered chosen by the god and, if they survived, a sheep was sacrificed in their honor. His festival was celebrated in the summer with the sacrifice of a lamb and a bull and the drinking of specially brewed beer. On that day women baked bread in silence as a mark of reverence.
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Here’s a fun one, sent in by friend of the Bulletin Alan — a.k.a. The Professor. City Brewery in La Crosse, Wisconsin (the same one that rescued the Latrobe brewery) is taking a novel approach to its energy use and has found a way to be charitable at the same time. They’re figured out a way to use their brewing bio-gas byproducts to “create three million kilowatt hours per year of electricity by capturing, cleaning and burning using a process through an engine called a Jenbacher.”
They then donate all that energy to a nearby hospital, the Gundersen Lutheran Health System, which takes the electricity produced by City Brewery, using it to produce 10-13% of their total energy needs. The hospital is trying to reach complete energy independence by 2014. Below is a short video explaining it all.
