Beer?
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srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Two observations.
1. The Septem brewery is based in Euboia/Evia. It's an island to the east of Athens which was one of the most outwardly facing settlements in the 7th century BCE, and a proud long-term bearer of the flag of Hellenic cultural heritage. So why the frig are they using the Latin word for seven rather than the Greek?
2. Europe is a union of different cultures, which acknowledges and respects difference while celebrating the local. So why the hell is the brand and the menu in English?
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Careful...
In the background of my picture, the hound belongs to the vicar. She's the black blur.
Classic @srw. Without which the Beer Thread would be poorer. But I was in a strange city for two days with only a few hours to play with, and it's a city where you feel lucky if you get Alfa or Fix or Mythos instead of Heineken. I was over the moon to find the place, five minutes from my digs. I didn't even care about the Comic Sans.
Having seen you in action on holiday, 'prioritising museums' is now going to be my favourite euphemism. Anyway, I suppose one should expect a load of flak in the beer thread for, er... drinking beer. But as I am expected to account for my cultural insouciance... we had already persuaded our colleague to start the meeting late on Saturday so that we had time to visit the Acropolis when it opened in the morning. Unfortunately that meant finishing late, leaving us, after the parting promises and pleasantries, with around an hour of museum opening time - which is about enough time to gawp at the space reserved for the stolen marbles in a manner reminiscent of @srw contemplating the offerings from Brouwerij Huyghe on the shelf at a bar whilst prioritising museums in Dieppe.
Being serious for a moment, though - a meeting of diverse cultural organisations from nine very different European countries thrashing out their differences in order to deliver a project together, and sharing stories over a long and generous meze lunch at a small local restaurant is pretty darned European, is it not? Our Greek hosts were very charming, but much more interested in talking abut the refugee crisis, floods, gentrification and neo-nazism than in museum opening hours.
I didn't ask for a beer menu in Greek, on account of not speaking enough Greek to ask for one and not understanding enough Greek to read it (although my colleague turned out to speak it rather well, so we'd have been OK), so I don't know whether we got English menus because they don't have Greek ones, or because waiting staff are very good at instantly identifying the nationality of punters. Either way, Beer Time is a pretty sensible brand for a specialist Craft Beer bar selling independent local and international beers in a city where FYP is the norm but where there are gazillions of English-speaking visitors with smartphones, desperate for a decent beer. Its full name includes the district, so it's actually called Beertime Ψυρρή.
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
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I just found my Faith (billed as a Modern Pale Ale, so fruity and cloudy in the NEIPA style...me like
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MossCommuter
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NKOTB; Neon Raptor Brewing Company
It's where the hype's at
A low strength pint of expensive murk.
Nice enough
It's where the hype's at
A low strength pint of expensive murk.
Nice enough
threebikesmcginty
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Damned by shite praise.
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User169
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They’ve given me a wine glass!
08/02 from BBNo. Their standard unbuggered about with imp stout. Top shelf stuff as one of my colleagues is fond of saying.
08/02 from BBNo. Their standard unbuggered about with imp stout. Top shelf stuff as one of my colleagues is fond of saying.
MossCommuter
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From Sunday, I forgot to post at the time.
Marble's Decadence that's been barrel aged. Standard Decadence is a bit meh but this is beautifully buggered about with
Marble's Decadence that's been barrel aged. Standard Decadence is a bit meh but this is beautifully buggered about with
