The days surrounding Christmas and New Years make for some challenging times for writing about beer. Which explains why there has not been much activity on Beer Living in the recent days. But never fear we are still living the beer life here. While finding time to write about beer is difficult, the drinking of [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
Leave One Out For Santa
I thought I was all done with posts about non-alcoholic beer. But then I stumbled on this story. It seems the frozen minds at Labatts have gotten into the Christmas Spirits with their latest ad promotion in Canada. Their ad reads : “Leave One Out for Santa. He’s Driving” It has a picture of Labatts [...]
Wondering about Sunday Beer
I happen to live within the city limits of a small city where it is illegal to sell beer and wine on Sundays. It is not that big of deal as I can drive 10 minutes up the road to another store where I can buy beer. I usually try and plan it so I [...]
Anchor Brewing Christmas Ale Labels
At times I am amazed by my lack of attention. For years I have enjoyed the Anchor Brewing Company’s seasonal Christmas Ale. And for years I never really paid attention to the label. I knew that it was somewhat beige and green and it had a tree on it. Well it turns out that each [...]
Beer Living is Back Home
The business trip to France is over. My trip plans regarding beer did not mature too well as the business part of the trip took most of my time (oh those damn work things). I did manage to have a few new French beers to add to my Year in Beer list. But not as [...]
Thanksgiving Recap
I have a really bad internet connection from Paris tonight, so this is a short post. We had a great turkey day with friends and family, but this poem sums it up: The Turkey is taking forever she sighed Hmm I thought, maybe we can feed them the pie But as the hungry crowed circled [...]