Beer Festival Australia – Beer Festival Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane

McEwan’s is a range of beer brewed at the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, Scotland. The brand is now owned by Heineken International. Its logo depicts a character from a Frans Hals painting known popularly as The Laughing Cavalier enjoying the beer. William McEwan opened the Fountain Brewery in 1856, in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh. By the time it became in public company in 1889, the brewery was valued at £1 million. At the beginning of the 1900s, the brewery had a large share of the market throughout Scotland and north-east England, and was exporting to Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa. McEwan’s merged with William Younger’s Brewery (founded in Edinburgh in 1749) in 1931, becoming Scottish Brewers. The company merged again in 1960, joining with Newcastle Breweries to form Scottish & Newcastle. In February 2004 Scottish & Newcastle announced the closure of McEwan’s Brewery, at the same time as partially buying Caledonian Brewery in Slateford, Edinburgh. McEwan’s brewery finally closed in June 2005, with production of the McEwan’s keg beers being transferred to Caledonian and cans of Mcewans export now being brewed in England at Dunston brewery. RIP McEwans Lager in a can

On their Science & Faith tour, it’s The Script performing Nothing with awesome drunk dialing jokes and the guitarist drinking San Miguel Beer. Shot in HD
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Renaissance Festival: Shakopee I love this place ’cause I can speak with a fake English accent all day long and pretend I’m in a Monty Python movie. If you’re a single woman you’re guaranteed to find a knight in shining armor. Ha. It’s a big costume party and you can get hooked up with some period dress right on site. Actors stay in character and the “kingdom” is made up of permanent structures that look totally authentic. It could be Middle Earth if you know what I mean. Everything is “Ye Olde” like the Ye Old giant turkey legs that you can rip apart to the Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe where you can get a Ye Olde latte. There’s a place to whiz tomatoes at unruly peasants’ heads, make funny wax “hang loose” molds of your hand, and I usually never leave without getting an elephant to chauffer me around. It’s definitely a throw back in time. It’s total Ye Olde sweet. See more about cool Minnesota stuff at My Favorite Minnesota www.exploreminnesota.com Don’t forget www.exploreminnesota.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Renaissance Festival 2007 Golden Gate Park Dancing Jenny Plucks Pears with my former troupe, the Merry Pryanksters (pryanksters.org). Video by me. Beer by Guinness.
Video Rating: 4 / 5