THE AMERICAN BEER-POINT

Beer photo-theses'2000 - 2003

Dedicated to Dylan, my room-mate and beerlover


1. Let's check out this beer-point (a gas-station store is the best possible equivalent of the beer-point, a small beer kiosk in the former USSR.) Buying Ice House, Coors Light, Budweiser, of course, - a crate of each - Little Kings (2 pint something bottle) and Mississippi Mud, a monster in itself - both on the outside (see the following pic) and inside.

Here is MISSISSIPPI MUD
- a beauty, black and thick, absolutely nothing to do with beer as we know it - either speaking of taste or color (think of swimming in a pond with black swampy water and occasionaly having that water in your mouth - this is as well as tasting MISSISSIPPI MUD!)
Yet (and because of that) - unforgettable.

2. Anyway, purchase made, salesmen happy, a nice bargain (beer worth of 50 US thalers at once - wow) - the first is secretly happy, silent (pic1) (thinking: wow), counting the banknotes, the other - a plain fella, old rastah, a Molson Beer shirt, - happy, openly, getting our beer into the boxes, kind of thinking: wow... and stuff.

Plus they are happy with our ID - we're straight, eligible to buy liquors, all is quite legal.

For those who can't make out, see - the writing in the store says:

I don't care if you're 95 - have your ID ready if you're buying Smokes or Beer
(Mir ist egal ob Du 95 bist - mach dein Ausweis offen wenn Zigaretten oder Bier kaufen)

Nay, this is not much of a real beer-point.

3. The Beer International (left to right):
USA, Spain, Russia, Columbia -
the beer is American.
Principle of locality:
Grolsch - in Holland, Obolon - in Ukraine, when in the States - Coors Light, etc.

This is a pseudo-beer cocktail with a strange brandname - ZIMA.
Some kind of fruit malt drink, nowhere close to a healthy product, good for amateurs, but the name...!

ZIMA is 'winter' in Russian.
(Note the drink is made in USA)
...why?

Consumption of beer the way it's supposed to be in the full rage...

Dylan.

Good trip...

Dylan once again.

Bad trip...

 

  		Another morning - another beer-point...

...Nay, that's a different store. Grabbing a couple of 24-oz BUD ICE cans to make it nice and low and leave...

So:

1. Beer-points in America are way too big (as everything else here.)

2. To buy beer, not only you gotta be older than 21, you gotta have an ID. Once in Chicago I left my ID at home and had to come back for 1 (one) bottle twice.

3. What I don't like most of all is you can't openly drink beer on a park bench by a fountain as the fine is exorbitant.
  P .S.

Various are beer-points, although the original beer-points are those from the 80s-early 90s Soviet era, with watery beer and people in lines with their 3-litter jars...


  (C)Absurd Media 2003



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