If you are in town tonight or tomorrow night and are of a certain age, get yourself over to Jerusalem's former train station, plunk down 25 or 30 shekels, and taste over a hundred different kinds of beer.
Including the famous Chimay beer, made for centuries by the Trappists in the Chimay monastery in Belgium.
I'm sure they will also have Taybeh, the first and only Palestinian beer.
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This is the 7th Jerusalem Beer Festival .
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The poster makes a pun on the Hebrew ir ha-biRAH (meaning the capital city) and ir ha-BIrah, meaning the city of beer. All depends where you put the accent.
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The other pun, Let there be beer/light, is less appealing. Eeuw, who wants to drink out of a light bulb!
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Lechaim to the 9,000 who are expected tonight.
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UPDATE: By chance I just saw a blog post about three other uses for leftover beer.
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Not our thing, beer, we're wine drinkers. We'll go sample some cava, our local bubbly, soon.
ReplyDeleteI hope they make non alcohol beer too?
ReplyDeleteI drink my healthy water:-)
As a linguist, I always LOVE the language and play on language posts.
ReplyDeleteI can remember well how many beers (and where) I have drunk in all my life (six), and my memory is not so good...
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice mean to discover the world, finding and making friends.
ReplyDeleteAll the very best for you and a nice new month as well.
Mmmm, beer. I love really good beers, the specialty ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cool looking glass!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be thee to sample the local products.
This time I'm afraid I have to disagree with you, Dina, I think the light/lamp is a great idea. :-)))
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