Cheers!

September 7, 2006 - 2:14 PM by

It’s a little early for Oktoberfest in Germany, but it’s already Septemberfest in Jerusalem. Liz lifted her glass at the Jerusalem Beer Festival.

Two drinkable items on the roster:

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1. Strongbow Cider.

Haven’t drank this in over 3 years! Used to be my nightcap on my semester in England; we had a proper bar on the floor below us in the dorms, so it was top off the night with a Strongbow or a Snakebite (which I still haven’t had since then; Snakebite is something different here).

2. Taybeh Beer.

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Believe it or not, Ramallah has its own brewing company and the liquid is not bad at all… A friend introduced this to us from his Israeli Arab classmate. They have a dark and a light.

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3 Comments on Cheers!

  1. ck on Sun, Sep 10th 2006 3:10 PM

    2. Taybeh Beer is the preferred beer of uh… “internationals” who drink it instead of Israeli beers as a political statement. While they do not wish to support Israeli companies they seem to have no problem spending their entertainment dollars in West Jerusalem where one can freely drink any beer, get drunk, dance provocatively and (hopefully) hook up without offending the locals. Such is not the case in Ramallah or Gaza City where one’s money could be spent in a more politically correct manner, but without the aforementioned drunkeness, hooking up and with the risk of offending locals and maybe getting kidnapped or worse.

    Taybeh Beer – the choice of useful idiots.

    Other than that though, it’s actually pretty decent beer though a tad inconsistent.

  2. American on Fri, Jul 13th 2007 5:27 PM

    3. Speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time in Israel and Palestine, especially Ramallah — folks are hooking up all over the place in Ramallah. Trust me on this. You clearly speak from ignorance. (UN workers in Gaza probably manage to get their rocks off one way or another as well, and the hotels by the beach in Gaza City are lovely venues for a stiff drink, though Islamist idiots, who are a minority, do occasionally get violently bent out of shape about it. They are sad losers, and the public at large is solidly opposed to violence against vendors of music, alcohol, and other stuff that makes life under occupation livable. But you have to expect a few thugs when you imprison millions of people and deny education and employment to hundreds of thousands of them. End the occupation and these nutjobs won’t have a leg to stand on.)

    And why shouldn’t people drink a very decent beer from a place they love and appreciate, which happens to be brutally occupied by a place you seem to support?

    You do your thing. We’ll do ours. And no need for name-calling. Cheers!

  3. Israelity » Oktober knows no borders on Thu, Oct 16th 2008 12:17 PM

    4. [...] The Taybeh Brewery, which offers Golden, Light, Amber and Dark beers, has a decidedly coexistence-themed flavor: It was founded thanks to peace momentum following the 1993 Oslo accords, it is marketed and bottled internationally, and a portion of the Oktoberfest profits is donated every year to peace-loving Palestinians and Israelis. [...]

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