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  First Wave Of Prizes For 2008 Yule Beer Blog Photos

  Posted: December 19th, 2008, 8:58pm CET by Alan McLeod

  Let's see if I can make this work. I have decided that announcing all the prizes at once is such a daunting task that I can't ever fit it in now that the holiday nuttiness is getting...nuttier. Also, I have to figure out how to do this HTML table thing. If I have it all oging out at once and can't get the table right...it will ruin Christmas for me. So let's open up one stocking today and see if I can get the format straight, shall we? Plus Jeff is so busy at the pub tonight he can't possibly notice that I went ahead and announced these first few. Right?

  Crap! Just realized I had missed a great prize offered by the Wynkoop Brewing Co., an Obamanator t-shirt. So if everyone can shower them with some proper respect...even if via holiday best wishes from across the planet, that would be cool. Big woots!

  Anyway, the first ten prize winners in the 2008 Yule and Christmas and Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and Any Other Holiday You Celebrate Beer Blog Photographic (and Daguerreotype) Contest and Carol Singing Festival are...in no particular order...and rolled out as I go along allocating prizes to photos over the course of this snowy afternoon... (drumroll!!!)

  Picture	Artist / Notes	Prize	Given By
  	Chris Hadden Portland, ME "Maine's Ploughmans Lunch"	T-shirt and Hat	Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Delaware
  	Nathan Fong Cambridge, MA "Salt Balancing"	"Ambitious Brew" signed copy	Maureen Ogle
  	Russ Burdick Markham, Ontario	A One Year Subsciption!	TAPS Canada's beer magazine
  	Dan James, C'town, PEI	t-shirt, pint glass, snifter glass, decal and hat!!!	Cigar City Brewing Tampa Bay Florida
  	Corky Hellmer Portland, Oregon	a growler of organic beer and an organic tshirt	Hopworks Urban Brewery Portland, Oregon
  	J. Wilson Prescott, Iowa [story here]	A definite offer of good stuff	Oskar Blues Brewery Colorado
  	Ron Pattinson A Brewer's Log [Story here]	Whatever pints are passed to him next visit!	The Gunmakers Pub London, England
  	Craig Mycoskie Denver, Colo.	a hat plus bottle of this years Epic Ale	Roots Organic Brewing Company Portland, Oregon
  	Nicole Cleaver Hamilton, Ontario	A Granite sweatshirt!	The Granite Brewery and Restaurant Toronto, Ontario
  	Andy Rigden Kent, England	I have to check with Jonathon. Glassware I think.	Monday Night Brewery Atlanta, Georgia

  How's that? Did the table work? Hmmm...I don't know why I have that column of cells to the right but I really do not care enough to fix it.

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  Scenes Of Red Tape: If The Last Tenant's Licensed, You're Not!

  Posted: December 19th, 2008, 2:35am CET by Alan McLeod

  Sometimes the wonder that is the bureaucracy around licensing is a beauty to behold. Consider this sad tale from the latest session of the Chattanooga Beer Board:

  Tonya Hacker appeared before the Chattanooga Beer Board on Thursday for approval of a beer permit for Rhapsody Café which she and her husband plan to open next month. Everything was moving along smoothly until she mentioned that the restaurant was in the same space as the former Bushwood Restaurant. A board member asked if Bushwood had surrendered the beer permit that they have for that location. Board Secretary Bertha Lawrence had no record of the permit being surrendered. Board Attorney Ken Fritz told Ms. Hacker there cannot be two permits issued for one location. The former tenant must be contacted and the permit must be forfeited before she can receive a permit for her restaurant...The board told Ms. Hacker she would be able to complete her transaction for a beer permit with the City Treasurer’s Office whenever Mr. Dill surrenders the permit for Bushwood and would not have to come before the board again.

  Fantastic! Splendid even!!! The building is empty, the former tenant business long gone, the prospective business owner is asking to be allowed to operate and everyone gets to sit on their hands until someone can find the frikkin' piece of paper rather than revoking it on the spot. You see, if a court wants to revoke your driver's license, the judge is not hand tied if the criminal still has it in his wallet. And if your pooch bites someone, waving around the paper won't stop the dog catcher from taking it to the pound. That is the way it works. But not in Tennessee.

  I do so love the beer boards of Tennessee. The bestest tribunals there are.