Sampling the beers

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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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First and only Palestinian beer

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Shabbat shalom. I just came home from a great barbeque at a friend's garden.

Must have been forty people there celebrating our mutual friend's birthday.

It was my first time to see (and drink) Taybeh beer.

Taybeh means delicious in Arabic, and it was!

The Wikipedia article about this beer says that it "follows a classic style of the way monks brewed beer in the Middle Ages in order to fortify themselves during their fasting."

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Taybeh Brewery is a Palestinian brewery founded in 1994 by brothers Nadim and David Khoury and their father Canaan.

Taybeh is a Christian Arab village in the West Bank, 20 miles north of Jerusalem.

You can take a video tour of the brewing process and meet Khoury at their website.

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It made me happy, both having one bottle and thinking that here was a Palestinian initiative that succeeded.

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UPDATE 2013: They are doing well and the beer is now sold in Japan and Germany and maybe soon in the USA.
See the brewery and the town in this video .
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UPDATE Jan. 22, 2014: They starting making white beer now, too.  See http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/First-White-Beer-Reaches-the-Palestinian-Market-339029
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