Great Intercontinental Pub Crawl 2007

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Yes, despite the failed attempt to get people together for the beer tasting Pyssedas is proud to announce we are pushing ahead with the Great Intercontinental Pub Crawl 2007.

Many of you will be familiar with crawls of past years from the forum here - 2005 - http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=404 and 2006 - ttp://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2055 now its time for 2007.

So whats it all about? well on Saturday 26th May 2007 we are trying to encourage as many people around the world to crawl in their favorite pubs. Why? Why not?

Details of the full disaster are over at the crawl website - http://www.geocities.com/pyssedas/index - but im happy to answer questions here of course - we already have drinkers on 5 continents participating - but last year we had 159 venues on all 7 continents - lets see if we can beat that this year

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Just a quick update on progress on the Intercontinental Pub Crawl - as you'll see over at the website we have friends from Africa, Antartica, Europe, North & South America and of course Australia signed up for this year's crawl but there are plenty more cities and venues needed to rival last year's effort

Fire up and crawl on!

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Great Intercontinental Pub Crawl Update, In this weeks edition:
* South Africa takes the lead
* How to count Antarctica?
* Exploratory mission to some Australian venues
* Asia still vacant

6 continents, 6 countries, 14 cities, 10 venues!
In news that will cheer the hearts of a nation crushed by Australia in the Cricket World Cup over the weekend, South Africa has taken a clear lead in terms of cities and venues for this years crawl. While it is somewhat tricky to figure out how to count Pretoria where numerous venues are participating [but not necessarily on one long crawl], there are 4 different cities/suburbs participating. Australia is in second place with 3 cities, and the US, with the addition of Gardiner, Maine moves up to second [depending on how you count Dogger's efforts in Canada.]

For the full list head over to http://www.geocities.com/pyssedas/index

How to count Antarctic venues?
This of course leads us to the tricky question of how to count the two Antarctic venues, Scott and McMurdo bases. Which countries are they in? Do they count as cities? What are the names of the venues they are drinking at? Your thoughts, particularly if you are Antarctic would be most welcome. Some new people may not have seen the crawl forum yet - it is an excellent place to debate important matters like this;

http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=6

Exploratory Mission to Melbourne[ish] venues
One of the ideas that the Melbourne Australia crew is toying with is hiring a bus and taking the crawl to the country - in particular to Holgate brewery in Woodend. Yesterday 4 of the crew did an exploratory mission to the Diggers Rest [including the Houdini monument], Gisborne, Macedon and Woodend. Photos and other things will follow on the forum - suffice it to say that many fine brews were located at Holgate. More exploratory missions to follow!

Asia still vacant:
While our London England host from last year finds herself in Japan now, we are still yet to officially find Asian participants - if you think you know someone who might be able to assist please let them know.

In fact, why not forward this email on to people you know wherever they might be - momentum is building, but time is also running out - the US in particular is well behind on its former efforts.

And don't forget we are once again compiling free Crawler's Almanacs this year - but we rely on contributions of photos, drawings, memories of previous crawls, reviews of venues - hell anything at all - we need them by the end of April so we can get them out in time.

As ever if you require any further information just get in touch - pyssedas@yahoo.com

cheers
Dave

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Another quick update on the crawl:

We now have free stickers created to promote the crawl - if you would like some just get in touch with me and I'll send them out to you.

We now have Manila on board so there are drinkers on every continent, but we still need many more to rival last years efforts - the good people of South Africa are showing the rest of the world how it is done at the moment - I can't believe how far behind Australia has fallen at the moment, and the efforts of the US are well behind their usual high standards - check out where the crawl is already taking place [and sign up] over at http://www.geocities.com/pyssedas/index

Cheers

[Oliver]

Well, I caught up with PHI last night for a few Cooper's Pale Ales and some great food at the fantastic Royal Mail Hotel in Spencer Street, West Melbourne.

It turns out that PHI is a shark at pool, although I question his taste in music, as one of his choices on the juke box was a song by that long-haired '80s band Poison!

All I can say is that the pub-crawl plans he revealed to me were exciting. I have ordered my promotional stickers and will begin sticking upon receipt of the said stickers.

Get on board.

Oliver

[DarkFaerytale]

Yeah! Poison! hope you put some def leapard on to PHI!

-Phill

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

I don't think Def was an option actually...nor was GnR which concerned me greatly

[DarkFaerytale]

no gunners?? i wouldnt trust a place with no gunners on the music box, next thing you'll tell me there's no matellica or barnsey! and they call themselves a pub...tsk tsk

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

there was metallica, and indeed that was played - there was chisel, we played flame trees and cheap wine [one of my missus' favorites as apparently she has a thing for a young barnesy] though it is worth noting that there was no khe sanh

the pub on the whole was most excellent though

[DarkFaerytale]

well they sell Coopers so that puts it 20 miles ahead of any of the pubs around here

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

was good food too - i had wallaby sausages at about $14 which i thought was pretty reasonable - kudos to oliver for taking me to a pub i'd not previously haunted too - even though i did know some of the locals

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Hi Everyone - just a very quick update to say that this week we welcomed Adelaide, Las Vegas and Hofstetten to the crawl. Time is beginning to run out so if you are interested in getting involved please drop us a line at pyssedas@yahoo.com soon - or check out one of the previously mentioned websites!

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Just a quick update for this week: We've welcomed Paris, Dublin and Brighton, England to the crawl this week. Hofstetten in Germany had the longest single crawl of 9 bars early in the week, but Brisbane Australia now has a 27 pub crawl planned.

Only 2 weeks remain for people who want to get the their cities/venues registered to be on the t-shirts - check out who is already signed up over at http://www.geocities.com/pyssedas/index

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

1 week left till we close the t-shirt designs, so if you have a bar, pub or gin haunt that you want listed on the back let us know asap. With Orange County, Soldotna, Wieslet, Maria Alm, & Denver joining the crawl, and new venues in Melbourne, Capetown and Hofstetten we are now up to 7 continents, 12 countries, 30 cities and 82 venues participating!

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Hi everyone, if you've already signed up for the crawl please check that I the details of your venues listed correctly over on the page - http://www.geocities.com/pyssedas/index.htm it's the details here that we will use on the t-shirts

If you haven't yet signed up then don't delay - in about 24 hours I will have to finalise the t-shirt design and your fine venues will miss out on being listed.

So far we have:
7 continents
14 countries
56 cities
106 venues

Don't be the last person on earth to sign up! http://www.pyssedas.com for more details

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Hi Everyone, only 15 sleeps to go to the pubcrawl and it's not too late to register venues. The number of cities participating continues to climb. If you haven't been over to the site recently to see who has signed up why not do so. Check out our abusive letter to the Mayor of Sydney while you are there - sooner or later they will give in and participate!

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Not long to go now will the Great Intercontinental Pub Crawl lurches into action - and its your absolutely, absolutely last chance to sign up in the next 24 hours or so to get your drinking efforts listed on the website. [http://www.Pyssedas.com - follow the links to the crawl].

So get together some friends and your shiniest drinking pannikins and drop us a line - so far we have 140 venues in 62 towns and cities in 16 countries on all 7 continents participating!

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Merry crawling to all of the nimble monkeys undertaking the crawl tomorrow!