{"id":1599,"date":"2009-09-25T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2009-09-25T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T11:49:00","slug":"the-beer-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-beer-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The beer revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0520219295\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" align=\"right\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> Asmus Rotne, who studied in Tbilisi the year before I did, today posted on Facebook that he had &#8220;just heard that the Georgian patriarch declared that toasting with beer is ok and carries the same significance as toasting with wine! It is a revolution!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a revolution indeed, although you probably need to be familiar with Georgian culture to realise it.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, socially acceptable drinking mainly happens at the <i>keipi<\/i> (?????), a highly codified dinner party.<\/p>\n<p>It is normally for men only, with the women cooking and serving and drinking fruit schapps in the kitchen.  Each man will choose at the beginning whether they&#8217;re drinking wine (?????), brandy (???????) or vodka (????), although often wine is the only thing on offer.  The <i>tamada<\/i> (??????) (&#8220;toast master&#8221;) will at regular intervals make toasts, empty his glass, and all the men will in turn make a speech on the same topic and empty their glasses, after which the glasses will be refilled.<\/p>\n<p>Beer (????), on the other hand, has till now not been acceptable in that context.  Many people like to drink beer with their <i>xink&#8217;ali<\/i> (???????), some sort of huge ravioli, which is probably the only dish than men cook, but apart from that, beer is drunk without food, and because toasting is a ritual, it has been impossible to offer toasts in beer.<\/p>\n<p>So the patriarch&#8217;s decision will lead to huge social change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asmus Rotne, who studied in Tbilisi the year before I did, today posted on Facebook that he had &#8220;just heard that the Georgian patriarch declared that toasting with beer is ok and carries the same significance as toasting with wine! It is a revolution!&#8221; It is a revolution indeed, although you probably need to be familiar with Georgian culture to realise it. In Georgia, socially acceptable drinking mainly happens at the keipi (?????), a highly codified dinner party. It is normally for men only, with the women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,106,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-ka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}