Benedicamus Domino

Eric Scheske (Daily Eudemon) fordert dringend ein katholisches Bierblog und meint, bei einem bayerischen Papst müsste das selbstverständlich sein...

Fono und ich haben ja gelegentlich das unsere beigetragen...

Nah dran kommt - in English - The Blue Boar, der u.a. Hilaire Belloc, einen Schreib-, Glaubens- und Trinkkumpan von Chesterton zu Wort kommen lässt:

Erst mit einem Zitat aus dessen Buch The Four Men:

"It is long since we last praised God with the drinking of ale."

und dann mit dem West Sussex Drinking Song:

They sell good Beer at Haslemere
And under Guildford Hill.
At Little Cowfold, as I've been told,
A beggar may drink his fill:
There is a good brew in Amberley too,
And by the bridge also;
But the swipes they take in at Washington Inn
Is the very best Beer I know, the very best Beer I know.

With my here it goes, there it goes,
All the fun's before us;
The tipple's aboard and the night is young,
The door's ajar and the Barrel is sprung,
I am singing the best song ever was sung
And it has a rousng chorus.

If I were what I never could be,
The master or the squire:
If you gave me the hundred from here to the sea,
Which is more than I desire:
Then all my crops should be barley and hops,
And should my harvest fail
I'd sell every rood of mine acres, I would,
For a bellyful of good Ale, a bellyful of good Ale.

With my here etc.