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I’ve scoured the interwebz (for about an hour) to find some very strangely named brews from around the world!

#5 – Horse Piss beer

Released in April 2005 HPB came out just before the Kentucky Derby that year. It was actually contract-brewed through Viking Brewing Company and donated a portion of the beer sales to charities that protect retired thoroughbred horses.

#4 – Genny Light

While it may not sound all that bad to you or I, “Genny” when translated in to Hungarian actually means “pus” or “filled with pus”. YUCK! Made in Rochester New York the brewery was established in 1878. Genny Light contains only 96 calories per can.

#3 – Griesedieck Brothers beer

This name pretty much speaks for itself. Brewed in St.Louis it’s recently come back after not being on the market for some time. Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. in Belleville, Illinois produces Stag beer and owns the Falstaff Brewing Corporation which makes Falstaff Beer.

#2 – Aass Beer

Made by Norway’s oldest brewery Aass Bayer is a lager. The strangest thing is that the company originally dealt in timber, groceries, baking AND brewing. Talk about a mixed bag! The brewery is still owned by the Aass family which makes me feel bad not only for the beer but all of their children as well! Let’s just hope it doesn’t taste like it’s named!

#1 – Vergina Beer

Vergina makes many types of beer. Their flagship brand is a premium lager but they also have a red, a premium pilsner and a weiss that’s made with a “special top fermenting yeast”! Personally I never really want to hear about Vergina and yeast at the same time but I’d be willing to give this beer just to be able to keep the bottle as a souvenir.

Well after all that hooting and hollering, press coverage, lineups, empty shelves, and the biggest liquor sales day in Ontario of all time the LCBO workers are still going to work today.

Details from official sources are a little scant at this time. With the LCBO website saying nothing but

June 24, 2009 12:01 p.m.

The LCBO and OPSEU LBED bargaining teams have agreed to continue bargaining.

All employees should report to work as usual until notified otherwise.

The workers made a last minute decision to put off going on strike stating that a resolution was soon enough in the wind that a strike wouldn’t be nessisary.

CP24 interviewed one customer yesterday during the booze grab blitz:

Toronto resident Bruce Wallner considered it important to hoard some hooch; he spent about $700 on liquor and organic wines to add to his personal cabinet.

“You can’t run out of wine — you’d have to stop eating,” he joked.

I’m glad they’re not striking. I like their selection better than that of The Beer Store. Although you CAN get Steamie there so I guess I’d be okay.

Whelp… the L.C.B.O. workers are threatening to strike. So get your butt to the Liquor store if you’re running low on anything cause tonight is the deadline.

L.C.B.O. workers want more full time jobs. 60% of LCBO workers fall into the casual worker category and earn an annual income of less than $20,800 per year. They also want to nix a management proposal to be able to issue 90-day layoff notices at any time and don’t like the idea of privatization on the L.C.B.O.

Many bloggers and much of the public seem to disagree. There has been a lot of comments about the current L.C.B.O. being a monopoly and even a few calls to strike so that Ontarians will realize that the sale of booze should be opened to the corner stores and grocers.

At least the privately owned Brewers Retail (a.k.a. The Beer Store) will still be open and I have a closet full of home made wine at home so I won’t have to brave any crowds tonight.

I’ve seen this before but It’s just been pointed out to me again.

dapperstache.com has thrown together a “Periodic Table of Awesoments” basically listing of all the elements that make up the world of awesomeness.

Beer is on there at #6 and Liquor at #51. So are Boobs at #13 and Snipers and Assassins at #’s 10 and 18. I particularly like #19’s elemental symbol of BA for Mr.T. Bacon of course get’s the top spot where Hydrogen would normally sit at #1.

Here’s a little of what they have to say about it:

The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It’s designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.

And here it is! (Click for a larger view)

This picture (recently posted on The fail blog) brings up some questions to me.

1. Are these kids learning from seeing their parents and if so
2. How much do their parents drink in front of them? OR
3. What kind of parent sets up such a photo if it’s NOT learned behavior?

After those questions briefly pass through my head I laugh.

With the popularity of facebook and the ability for people, corporations and brands to spread the word through the world here’s some links to some facebook groups and fan pages:

• Alexander Keith’s
• Torontos Festival of Beer
• Tiger Beer
• Taps Craft
• Pilsner Beer
• Shmaltz Brewing Co. and HEBREW Beer
• Canadian Beer in general
• Steam Whistle Pilsner
• Guinness
• Molson Canadian
• Heineken
• Stella Artois
• Jagermeister
• Absolut Vodka
• What goes better with vodka other than Red Bull

These are just a few of the groups out there. If you have some fav’s that aren’t on the list why not leave them in the comments section?