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    Singing About Beer In 1936 At The Movies In Oslo

    Posted: March 27th, 2010, 2:26pm CET by Alan McLeod

    Knut posted this 1936 short film praising Norwegian beer this morning. It's pretty amazing. Notice at the end that the lyrics are put up on the screen so everyone in the cinema can sing along. Notice that singing along in Norway in 1936 includes a lot of "tim-tim-tim"-ing. It amazes me that some of the people in the film were kids in the 1800s, that they are 33 years away from a man on the moon, that we are 41 years past man on the moon and that all they want to do is sing "tim tim tim" at the movies or in a farmer's field or even in Egypt. With all due respect to all that have done the undoubtedly hard work, the announcement today that there is a new Cask Marque and Cyclops iPhone app for with any sort of beery information including a format of beer reviews that is "rapidly becoming national standard" in the UK is diddle-squat compared to the glory that is movie houses all over Norway in 1936 filled with people singing the praises of beer before the main feature comes on.

    You want to move more good beer? Get it in the grocery stores at a reasonable price and have the shoppers singing its praises at the movies.

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    Earth Hour Seems To Mean Beer Hour To Some

    Posted: March 27th, 2010, 3:15am CET by Alan McLeod

    "Spend an hour guzzling organic booze" says one story from Chicago. Gorkha Brewery in Kathmandu, Nepal is all set to support the Earth Hour, too. Heck even Molson Coors will "power down" for Earth Hour 2010.

    I've never really caught the Earth Hour bug as I happily got rid of the second car years ago and live six humans to an unmonster house. Do I really need to fret about my beer? Frankly, my spidey sense tells me that this is not a story craft beer can win as the industrial scale of production should also provide per unit efficiencies. I kinda suspect that by "turning off all non-essential interior and exterior lighting and signage at the Denver headquarters and the breweries and offices at Molson Coors Canada and Molson Coors UK" big beer is able to do more than a heck of a lot of microbreweries could pull off together short of shutting down completely. And wouldn't the real power being no one buying or drinking or even banking their beer drinking for an hour cutting down on consumption thereby cutting out the power that goes into the making of that 0.000114125 portion of a year mean something absolute?

    I dunno. I like teachable moments as much as the next person but isn't it better to back off the water heater five degrees full time and thank yourself with a beer?