13th Colchester Winter Ale Festival Programme

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The gakkul vat, the gakkul vat!The gakkul vat, the lamsare vat!The gakkul vat, which puts us in a happymood!The lamsare vat, which makes the heartrejoice!The ugurbal jar, glory of the house!The caggub jar, filled with beer!The amam jar, which carries the beer from thelamsare vat!The troughs made with bur grass and thepails for the dough!All the beautiful vessels are ready on their potstands!May the heart of your god be well disposedtowards you!Let the eye of the gakkul vat be our eye, andlet the heart of the gakkul vat be our heart!What makes your heart feel wonderful initself also makes our hearts feel wonderful inthemselves!We are in a happy mood, our hearts arejoyful!You have poured a libation over the fatedbrick, and you have laid the foundations inpeace and prosperity — now may Ninkasidwell with you!Thelate,greatNeilInnesenjoyingsometastingsattheColchesterBeerFestivalin1999RIPNeil(StillfromBBCOut+About).She should pour beer and wine for you!Let the pouring of the sweet liquor resoundpleasantly for you!In the troughs made with bur grass, there issweet beer.I will have the cupbearers, the boys and thebrewers stand by.As I spin around the lake of beer, whilefeeling wonderful, feeling wonderful, whiledrinking beer, in a blissful mood, whiledrinking alcohol and feeling exhilarated,with joy in the heart and a contented liver —my heart is a heart filled with joy!I clothe my contented liver in a garment fitfor a queen!
The Sumerians lived in the region ofMesopotamia (now modern day Iraq)about 4,000 years ago.They drank beer, in pubs, just like wedo, albeit with a few subtle differences.Each tavern brewed its own beer - theoriginal micro-breweries - (in fact, therewere no other breweries). For brewingyou’d need 3 vessels, the gakkul vat, thelamsare vat and an ugurbal jar.Tavern keepers were exclusively women,they brewed the beer too as it was seenas ‘household’ work.Cashless payments - this was a bartersociety so you probably paid in barley,or maybe a piglet if you ran up a seriousbar tab.What if you didn’t get a full measure ofbeer in return for your barley payment?Punishments were slightly moredraconian - short pints were punishableby the drowning of the landlady.The beer itself? A wide variety of styleswere brewed - barley, wheat, brown,dark, light, red, sweet - though you’dprobably only have that day’s brew toThere are 20 words in the list to do with a places in theworld theme. 19 are in the grid, one is not. They can readleft, right, up, down and diagonal.G A B A M O N B E R A M Z E A D A NN Y R E T T I B Y E L S N R A B Z BI D L O G Y A W O L L A G S F E Q DM A E Y O Y A L A D N A M A D R M LA R L T G O D L B L S E G N A G Y OE G O M R P I D A U O P O T X P E GR N M M N O O P O L I L F A Q Z G DD I E R N A I I N I B E R F Z K Y NA N L X A A S T Y T J K F E L C P AI E A Y S P U Z S A A Z M O N A T LN L S U Y J F A K O T V I O L J I AR O U N B R O Z E J U Q U A Z S A EO S R T W C F L P K L R A M P A N ZF P E S T W A I K I K I C J X X C WI R J S F W A L T A I D N I D E R EL R E B M A N O Z A M A P O T T E NA W B E I J I N G B L A C K A Y A ZC B Z L O D I P O H N A C I R E M Achoose from - adding hops to preservebeer was centuries away.No glasses, clay communal vessels calledamam jars were used probably onebetween two and always served withstraws.A straw? Yes, bright clear beer wasn’t athing - you needed a straw to dipthrough the floating layer of fizzyporridgey barley on top of the beer andreach the delicious nectar below. Youcould have filtered beer, but you’d bepaying piglets rather than ears for it.The atmosphere? Jovial, convivial,friendly - like a good modern pub. Theyliked drinking games and they liked ajoke.There’s excellent evidence that theSumerians liked a good drunken singsong and the words of one still survive -see left (try it to the theme tune toPostman Pat!)Inspired by ‘A Short History of Drunkeness’by Mark Forsyth - available from all goodbook shops.AMERICAN HOP IDOLAMAZON AMBERBARNSLEY BITTEROREGON PALEBEIJING BLACKCALIFORNIA DREAMINGDETROIT SOUR CITYEGYPTIAN CREAMGALLOWAY GOLDGANGESRED INDIAJERUSALEMSANTE FETEXAS JACKLENINGRADUSA IPAMANDALAYNEW ZEALAND GOLDWAIKIKIWEST COAST BLONDEBY TED TEDThe pub in 2000bcWORDSEARCH
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