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Toasting the New Year 2010

January 1, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Here at the Brookston Beer Bulletin we’re pausing today to wish you and yours a very Happy New Year. 2009 was yet another interesting year and was rarely dull with plenty of drama. Nobody knows with any real certainty what 2010 will be like for the beer industry, but I’ll be here for my fifth straight year of ranting about it, er .. analyzing it, online. I hope you’ll join me on another year’s worth of adventure in the beer world.
 

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Taken last night in front of the Christmas tree; Alice, Porter and a tasty beer. Westvleteren. What better way to start the new year. Sometime today raise a glass of a tasty libation as we toast you a Happy New Year with one of my favorites:

Observe, when Mother Earth is dry,
She drinks the droppings of the sky,
And then the dewey cordial gives
To every thirsty plant that lives.

The vapors which at evening sweep
Are beverage to the swelling deep,
And when the rosy sun appears,
He drinks the misty ocean’s tears.

The moon, too, quaffs her paly stream
Of lustre from the solar beam;
Then hence with all your sober thinking!
Since Nature’s holy law is drinking,
Mine’s the law of Nature here,
And pledge the Universe in beer.

            — Tom Moore, The Universal Toast

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This is one my favorite out-takes. I have plenty more of the kids mugging for the camera and making funny faces. And here’s one final toast.

Love to one, friendship to many, and good will to all.

            — Anonymous

Welcome to 2010.

Here are more of my favorite toasts. Let me know if I’m missing one of your favorites.

Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Holidays, Personal



Comments

  1. chuckl says

    January 1, 2010 at 7:42 pm

    Best wishes to you and yours, Jay
    Cheers
    Chuck

  2. Tom Dalldorf says

    January 2, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    J: Yours is a valued voice for beer lovers everywhere. I know the daily pressures can make it a bit of a slog at times but keep on keepin’ on as there is quite a following hanging on your every rant and impossibly esoteric interest.

    Rock on, beer geek and Hoppy New Beer!

    Tom

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