Tag Archives: beer

Beati qui…

Posted on 12 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Someone shared with me a graphic that indicates the amount different states of these USA tax your beer.  From TaxProf:

Did you that the last voice in the mighty Lewis & Short Dictionary is for a form of Egyptian beer?
 

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BIRRA NURSIA!

Posted on 25 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here’s one for the Just Too Cool file.
The Benedictines in Norcia (ancient Nursia), whom I mention with some frequency here (they post their chanted monastic hours online), have inaugurated their new beer.   A friend who is involved with them … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Theologi si fuerint cervisiae… (If theologians were beers…)

Posted on 3 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at Ascent of Carmel we find (and you will have to go there to find the explanations…):
If Theologians Were Beers… A Selection
“In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.”
-G.K Chesterton
Yesterday, my good friend and I … Continue reading →

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Of Beer, Norcia, Monks, Boars, Cheese, Truffles and the City of God

Posted on 23 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Just Too Cool file, the great Benedictines monks in Norcia, Italy (the place where it is said St. Benedict was born) are making BEER!
Birra Nursia!
I often go to their website to listen to the office chanted.   They … Continue reading →

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It’s a “chalice”… an ineffable chalice!

Posted on 20 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Before its implementation… and after… some people whined that the new, corrected translation is tooo haaard.  How could anyone be expected to understand words like “ineffable… consubstantial… dew…” or “chalice”.
A reader sent me this:

Apparently a brewery thinks beer drinkers can … Continue reading →

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