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Beer Haiku Contest for VIP Tickets to Monterey Beer Festival
June 5, 2012
I'm not sure about much in life.
In fact, I can list what I am sure about now:
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Gary Pisoni is awesome.
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Haikus are awesome.
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Beer is awesome.
Couple accompanying notes: (1) Awesome is oft overused, but in this case, not so much. (2) One thing I'm not so sure about, but still relatively confident...the Best Beer Haiku of the Century appears below:
Give me a beer, pops.
Give me barley, water, hops.
Suds with buds is tops.
Don't agree? Prove me wrong. Best haiku on beer wins two VIP tickets to the June 9 Monterey Beer Festival, land of 80 breweries pouring hundreds of beers—from tiny obscure craft ales to big-bodied, big market porters—in the sunshine with food trucks and live tribute bands and guest host Frank "Big Hurt" Thomas, who heads to the Hall of Fame next year. Poetry averse folks can jump over to the Monterey Beer Festival website to grab a ticket before they evaporate.
Punch your haiku into the comments below or email edible@mcweekly.com.
Here's one from Seaside's George Peterson, beer afficionado and professional scuba diver, to help get the poetry flowing. My Best of the Century title may be in trouble already:
Better than cold beer?
I do not know that which is
Better than cold beer.
Comments
foaming head begs wait, as carbonation escapes, at eager tappers
Ode to IPA
Big on floral hops Brew bursts with bitter bounty Sipped with gentle lips
ok...this one's not a haiku but hard not to love it: BEERS by Dan Linehan ••• good beer/ dad's from the fridge/ had to sneak • cheap beer/ for the volume/ not much dough • good beer/ girls by the bar/ had a job • cheap beer/ for the garden/ drowns the slugs
one tweeted from @mbadso deserves props:
Beer haiku try it/one and all drink and compose/hard to do while drunk
Amber, dark or pale / I'll drink any kind of ale / but shot-gunned I'll fail
Beer makes me pee/then I feel free/then I can have sex/and still have clean pants
I drank too much BEER! Better soak it up quickly... Taco Bell Tacos!!!!!!!!
-Aaron.
Stout, pale, amber, pilsner, porter, No matter which delicious brew you imbibed, All come out yellow water.
Indian pale ale. Best drinken before it stales. Hoppy with Poppy.
No porter can top. Santa's Little Helper's Pop! Ease all my ale-ments.
Pay no Bills, Post No. Bail me out of the jail, Please. First stop- Sand City.
Foam tops cool pale ale
Golden pleasure in a glass
It is a nice day
I like my beer cold
A stout is best if it's bold
Never flat and old
Beer Haiku Contest:
Monterey Beer Festival
Tickets please, mine's best.
Haiku never rhymes
Syllables - five, seven, five
Beer is a poet's friend
Lager and/or ale
Pilsner, porter, stout, or bock
Cold refreshing beer
Another beer now
We'll make toast to tomorrow
Or drown my sorrow
Create my own brew
Hops and Barley just right
One small taste of bliss
Light, dark, in between
Pilsners, porters, lagers, ales
I'm drunk without fail
Fruit Lambic so ripe
Sip from a chilled goblet
I will make this last
Show me a cold brew
I am a guest in your home
Friends always to be
Many Beers I want
Refreshing Cold and Crisp
I savor each sip
These be hopped-up days
Everywhere IPA's
Three beers in, oops, drunk
Chilled beer in our mugs,
Look, the heads so full and thick,
Let's toast for hair plugs!
Wisdom of old monasteries,
Friendship, fun, laughter, and good times,
Oh, it's beer time!
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