Beer Haiku: Christmas Shopping

Captain Hops captures the panic in the air with this 2006 Haiku called "A Guys Viewpoint":

Better start shopping
It’s almost noon Christmas Eve
First, I’ll have a beer

Festive Glass Tip - Beer Haiku Daily

Risk labels proposed on alcohol

Alcohol bottles could be slapped with new labels warning pregnant women to steer clear under a new proposal floated by the trans-Tasman food regulator.

FSANZ will accept public submissions on the proposal until February 6 before deciding whether to disregard it or allow it to be assessed further.

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SOBA HomeBrewFest 2007

SOBA HomeBrewFest.
The beer event of the year.

Sunday 16th December.
2pm - 8pm, The Boatshed, Wellington.
$25 ($20 for SOBA members).

Beers from Wellington's keenest homebrewers (and a Hawke's Bay one), served alongside beers (and a cider) from Emerson's, Invercargill, The Twisted Hop, Tuatara and Wigram.

See SOBA website for further details.

Beer Haiku - Beer by Committee

Writing about the Collaborator Doppelbock, Captain Hops aptly captures the problem with beers designed by a committee in today's Beer Haiku.

Brewed by committee.
How many are too many
Cooks in the kitchen?

Glass tip - As ever, Beer Haiku Daily

Our Beer in the Media Watch section is occupied for the second week in a row by the Education Review. Tom Reece, the Chief Executive of the Extractives Industry Training Organisation, reveals he would take a "supply of Emerson's Organic Pilsner" into orbit along with a pot plant and some comfy slippers.

Wanaka Brewery For Tender

One of Wanaka's success stories has come to the market for the first time since it was established in 1998.

After reaching Australasian acclaim for producing award winning beers, our vendor feels it is the best time to pass on his quality brewery and tasting room.
Wanaka Beerworks is one of the top micro-breweries in New Zealand with its three premium craft-brewed labels, Brewski, Cardrona Gold & Tall Black, based on classic European recipes.

The business, based at the Wanaka airport, provides a turn-key operation with brewery tours, tasting facilities and enjoyed from the waterfront in Wanaka to the waterfront of Auckland.

Combine your lifestyle in one of the country's fastest growing tourist towns with an established business opportunity with room for growth.

Tenders close: 4pm, Thursday 7th February 2008
(unless sold prior by any other method at any time)

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Beer Haiku - Christmas Edition

Even though I have not yet heard Snoopy's Christmas in the shops, it is clear that Christmas is approaching. Captain Hops has a gift for us all - a seasonal Haiku he called "Freudian Slip":

Trimming the tree
Loaded with beer… er, I mean…
Loaded with cheer

Glass Tip - Those jolly fellows at Beer Haiku Daily

And in the semi-regular Beer in the Media Watch section, while most of the attention this week has been on the beer and food article in the New Zealand Herald, it probably escaped most people's attention that craft beer turned up in - of all places - the Education Review.

When asked what three items he would take into orbit, Darel Hall (the often photographed communications manager for Competenz and political aspirant) listed "access to the world's libraries, my favorite librarian and a very large keg of Tuatara Pilsner. And Facebook."

A fine choice of beer.

Politics surely must be in his future - when asked for three items he listed four things.