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(Frances Bacon in happier times: Image courtesy Victoria Taylor-Ross)
Bacon, a Vietnamese micro pig, has passed away after a “short illness,” and if that’s not “beer news you can use,” we don’t know what is. We’ve that, “Words to Drink By”, and more…
Beer Loving Pub Pig Dies
Francis Bacon, a resident pig at The Conquering Hero pub in South London has died according the Drinks Business, our go-to source of the important beer news from the UK. Bacon was 13 (which we believe is old for a pig, especially for a pig who had a pint or two every night for most of his extended run).
Bacon, a Vietnamese micro pig, passed away on January 30 after a “short illness.”
According to a Facebook post from the pub’s owners Ian and Victoria Taylor-Ross: “As a piglet she rampaged through the house, made herself at home in the kid’s beds and established herself as part of the family, she grew up alongside our children and they are feeling this loss deeply.”
And Bacon did love beer, so much so that intervention had to be staged to stem the pig’s beer drinking, according to the Daily Star. The pig would headbutt customers to get their drinks, so yeah…
Words to Drink By
“The world keeps changing, you’re supposed to question your suppositions, or else you’re left behind.” – Bob Lefsetz, Music industry writer and media analyst
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Czech Republic Hop Region Makes World Heritage List
“Žatec and the Landscape of the Saaz Hops” has been added to the World Heritage list by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) according to The Drinks Business.
Part of the “noble” family Saaz hops, are in fact named after the Czech town of Žatec and are used extensively in the region’s most popular lagers including the Czech Pilsner.
In its announcement UNESCO notes the region’s “particularly fertile hop fields near the river Ohře” that have been “farmed for hundreds of years” and its “historic villages and buildings used for processing hops.”
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