
Tuesday’s ad is again for Drewery’s, and I believe it’s probably a still from an animated television commercial. It has the stylized look of the animation from that period of time. It must have been a fun commercial.

By Jay Brooks
By Jay Brooks

The Twitterverse was abuzz this morning, and the rest of the day, with a clever little game of substituting a beer term for a word in a movie title to come up with what the hashtag termed a “Fermentation Film.” Usually it’s the adult film world that has the best titles, but there were some pretty clever ones thrown down today by a wide range of people. As far as I can tell, it began around 3:00 p.m. in Great Britain (7:00 A.M. Pacific), before migrating across the pond to the United States. The flurry went on for far longer than any hashtag I’ve ever seen that wasn’t event-based. For nearly ten hours, the beerified film titles kept coming, finally slowing down by the end of the work day, California time.
Below is a list of all of the Fermentation Films tweeted with the hashtag #fermentationfilms, along with the person who came up with it first. I worked backwards, so if you tweeted one and there’s a different name next to it, then your tweet was not the first one with that title. The winner of most duplicated has to be “Yeast of Eden.” I think I saw a dozen of those. I kicked out the duplicates, along with a few that were too close, and also didn’t include a few that either were actual film titles or ones that in my admittedly questionable judgement I didn’t understand or didn’t find worthy. That still left a staggering 440 455 fermentation film titles. [Update: I promised myself I wouldn’t go back, but there were a few new ones I couldn’t bear to leave out, so I updated it. The list is now current through September 26 at 11:00 AM PDT.] There’s a few that still make me laugh out loud and a few that made me groan, but they’re all pretty entertaining. Enjoy.
* As far as I can tell, this was the first Fermentation Film title to be posted on Twitter, making David the originator of today’s fun.
By Jay Brooks

How long do you think you have to work before you can have a beer? I don’t mean how long before you think it’s time to take a break and enjoy a pint. No, I mean how long do you think you have to work in order to earn enough money to buy yourself a beer?
In the Economist’s Daily Chart, Thirsty Work, they detail the efforts of analysts at the Swiss Bank UBS to figure out how long the average German worker would have to work in order to buy him- or herself a half-litre of beer at Oktoberfest. They discovered that it would take “just under seven minutes of work.” But it’s not the same in every nation, as the chart below details. The avergae appears to be about 20 minutes of work for a beer, which doesn’t seem too bad. The worst place was India, where you’d have to work “nearly an hour” to make enough for a beer. The United States, I’m happy to say, is at the bottom, which is a good thing. It only takes us about 5 minutes to earn enough for a beer. Hell, I think I earned two beers just writing this post.

By Jay Brooks
By Jay Brooks
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San Diego Brewing tweeted this cool ad for Tiger Beer, which they called a “funny commercial for crappy beer.” I don’t think of Tiger as a great beer certainly, more a middle-of-the-road industrial lager. But I may be biased since they had the good sense to make custom View-Master reels a few years ago. At any rate, the commercial is pretty clever, even if it may not make you rush out for some of the beer.
By Jay Brooks
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Today in 1973, Guinea-Bissau declared their Independence from Portugal.
Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Breweries
Guinea-Bissau Brewery Guides
Other Guides
Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.05%




Alcohol Consumption By Type:
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita (in litres):
WHO Alcohol Data:
Patterns of Drinking Score: N/A
Prohibition: None

By Jay Brooks
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Today in 1908, Bulgaria gained their Independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Bulgaria

Bulgaria Breweries
Bulgaria Brewery Guides
Other Guides
Guild: Union Of Brewers In Bulgaria
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Label requirements: Producer (importer), ingredients, abv, volume, date of expiration/producer and text “Consume responsibly, enjoy with pleasure.”
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.05%




Alcohol Consumption By Type:
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita (in litres):
WHO Alcohol Data:
Patterns of Drinking Score: 2
Prohibition: None

By Jay Brooks

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.

By Jay Brooks
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Today in 1960, Mali gained their Independence from France.
Mali

Mali Breweries
Mali Brewery Guides
Other Guides
Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%




Alcohol Consumption By Type:
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita (in litres):
WHO Alcohol Data:
Patterns of Drinking Score: 2
Prohibition: None

By Jay Brooks
