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Day: March 16, 2009

Χαῖρ’ Ἀμστελίου φράγμα, τό μοι ζῦθον διδάξαν!

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Hail, Dam of the Amstel, Which hast taught me of beer! (Because for an exceedingly long time, including as I was growing up, the only beers you could get in Greece were Amstel—named for the river that Amsterdam dams—and Heineken (or as the Greeks call it, “the green one”), founded on the Amstel by a […]