Hail the Ale! Beer Blog

You’ve got to hand it to the bar owners and workers trying to make the best of a horrible situation and provide some sort of normalcy to their customers. Johnny White’s and One Eyed Jack’s are at least a couple that are still open.

Now before someone decides to leave a comment that we here at Hail the Ale! are a bunch of uncompassionate drunks who only care about drinking, let me say this: don’t bother. We urge everyone to donate to a charity helping the victims of this storm—if you are reading our RSS feed, there is a link to the Red Cross in every other article to make it easy.

Add this to the list of reasons to like our neighbors to the north: they spend as much on beer as wine and liquor combined. Also, add to the list their affinity for short, meaningful names for government agencies. Statistics Canada is the one that compiled the stats. Here in the US, that would have to be at least four words that form an acronym and would have to include the word “Bureau”.

It tastes like a mix of beer and sherry, has 25.4% alcohol, and is served by the shot glass. Not much news on the brewer other than that he is Bavarian. The article notes that Sam Adams holds the current record but doesn’t note what it is. From my extensive research, I’ve uncovered that Sam’s 2003 Utopia batch yielded 25% so it looks like this one would hold the new record.

Link via: my drinking buddy Jason

C’mon, you know that lederhosen are way to girlie for you manly beer-drinkers so wear a skirt to Oktoberfest instead.

German designers want male drinkers at Oktoberfest in Munich to wear skirts this year. They claim their Oktoberfest Frock is more comfortable than traditional lederhosen.

“With all that beer flowing at the fest you need to make sure your belly is free to take it in,” said Andreas Landinger.

Question: What is the only thing a man in lederhosen can make fun of?
Answer: A man wearing a skirt in the beer garden.

Doreen Anders and Landinger, from Munich, said they were influenced by the Scottish kilt in creating the drinking-dress which comes in 'short' or 'calf' length. There are no tartan designs but the kilt comes in colors that complement the blue-and-white Bavarian flag and other symbols of the Oktoberfest beer festival.

How about ‘sack’ length?

Landinger, who started designing skirts for men a year ago, said: “I think they're going to go down well,” Landinger said. “We've already had a few dozen orders and once one everyone realizes how comfortable they are, I think they'll really catch on.”

Umm, OK… Me, I’ll be sticking to my lederhosen—literally.

You know you want some BLing! And who wouldn’t trust buying something like this from a Livejournal user who uses a cameraphone for product shots and USES A BUNCH OF CAPS, ASTERISKS, AND EXCLAMATION POINTS?!!!!!*******