Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:33:16 -0400 >From: "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net> >Subject: [Leica] cheers for beers >Message-ID: <200110211425.KAA08091@poseidon_2> >References: > >Mark Rabiner wrote: > >"That's what i call some ironic sense of humour from a booze company! I like >these Belgins! "Flems?" > >delirium tremens n. >An acute, sometimes fatal episode of delirium usually caused by withdrawal or >abstinence from alcohol following habitual, excessive drinking. It also may >occur during an episode of heavy alcohol consumption. [New Latin delirium >tremTns : Latin dTlhrium, delirium + Latin tremTns, trembling.]" > >The Belgians delight in naming their brews diabolically also. There are beers called >Satan and Lucifer too, probably a few others - often with dramatic label art. The >Quebec-made Belgian knock-offs follow with La Maudite (the Damned), l'Eau Benite >(Holy Water, with a satanic label) and a few others. Canadian cigarette packs now >carry (compulsory) pictures of diseased lungs, gums, and stylized flaccid male sex >organs. It's all truth in advertising, IMHO. > >Emanuel Lowi >Montreal There are also "La cochonne" (the -female- dirty pig ) and the drawing on the label is really meaningful. Or the "Quintine", the name of an old witch who was burn a few years ago. These (as well as Moinette, Barbare and son on) are very good ones, 100% craft and one step further than other industrial ones. The Quintine is one of my favourite. It rates 8° - available in 33cl bottle with tip stopper, in old fashion wooden rack. "La binchoise" (from Binche, a little town well kown for its carnival and its "Gilles") is available in Canada - 100% craft too. There are more beers in Belgium than film/developer/dilution/time combinations in the Massive B-W Film & Dev Chart - and there are all different. Bernard bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html