When it comes to new technology, it is fair to say I am a relatively late adopter. 

At noon on Wednesday 17 September 2011, the Lord Mayor of Munich, Herr Christian Ude, tapped the first keg of Oktoberfest beer and made the traditional announcement “O’zapft is!” (“It is tapped!”) 

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It has taken forty matches of pool play – that is at least 3,200 minutes, nearly 55 hours or just a little over two and a quarter days of solid rugby

One of the most common questions asked at craft beer tastings is “what is an IPA?”  Beer writer Pete Brown provides a one sentence answer – “India Pale Ale was a beer style created especially for the British Raj in India”. 

The first pilsner beers were sold on 11 November 1842 at the Martinmas Fair [1] in the Czech town of Pilsen. 

Veteran Aussie rugby writer Greg Growden created a furore in New Zealand by suggesting in his Sydney Morning Herald column that a Kiwi Minister of the Crown had behaved appallingly at the Australia-Italy game in North Shore stadium.