American food and drink holidays. Quite a list. The next alcohol one isn’t until April 19th. National Amaretto Day.
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Alright, we gotta do something. This global warming thing ain’t funny no more: The price of beer is likely to rise in coming decades because climate change will hamper the production of a key grain needed for the brew.
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Good as it gets this side of heaven? The Hercules Beer Case.
I’m actually not a big fan of the oil-can stuff, and this assortment looks pretty thick. Still, it’s a great lure.
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As an Elvis fan, I needed a drink after seeing this never-before-released photo from 1972:
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Drinking joke:
An Irishman’s been drinking at a pub all night. The bartender finally says that the bar is closing. So the Irishman stands up to leave and falls flat on his face. He tries to stand one more time, same result. So he decides to crawl the 4 blocks to his home and when he arrives at the door he stands up and falls flat on his face. He crawls through the door into his bedroom. When he reaches his bed he tries one more time to stand up. He manages to pull himself upright but he quickly falls right into bed and is sound asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. He awakens the next morning to his wife standing over him shouting at him.
“So, you’ve been out drinking again!!”
“What makes you say that?” He asks as he puts on an innocent look.
“The pub called, you left your wheelchair there again.”
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Flare bartending:
Oh, have they no shame?… alarming innocent beer drinkers with dire warnings like “it will mean there will be pubs without beer”.
That’s hitting below the belt… like telling Southerners there’ll be no more bacon, or scaring Californians with dark rumors of a Botox shortage.
Kiwis would allow their pubs to run dry? Right. More likely they’ll find a way to grow hops and barley on bare rock.
Add on: If things reach the stage where there’ll be no more beer, there’ll be much bigger problems to worry about. Warning me, “You’ll lose beer because of global warming” is like warning me that a home invader is going to steal my kitchenware. It sucks, sure, but you’d think there are bigger concerns than my forks and plates.
“Flare bartending”… shudder. I’m a “just give me my pint of Guinness and turn down that d*mned music” kind of guy 🙂
Likin’ the jokes…