Intercontinental Pub Crawl 2006

[Pyssedas]

Hello folks,

It is that time again. Planning is now underway for the 2006 Intercontinental Pub Crawl.

So far we have excited responses from 16 Cities in 8 Countries spanning 5 Continents. Huzzah!

Like last year, we hope to have people drinking on every continent on the same day (27th May). If you would like to be involved write to us at pyssedas@yahoo.com or let's discuss it here in the forum.

Please tell us which venues, cities, states and countries you are going to be in.

This is about Beer! You need to Understand.

Cheers!

[Pyssedas]

Hi Everyone and welcome to the delayed Friday Pub Crawl update,

What with the Pyssedas supercomputer being offline a bit in the last week things have been a little quiet – if you have been considering joining us for the crawl now is the time to do so!

If you are already part of the crawl – why not choose a couple of your closest friends to send this message on to so that the crawl can grow even bigger and sillier.

There are still many fine cities out there, including previous participants, who are letting themselves down a bit…

Australia:
Melbourne, Australia has now taken the lead for the city with the most venues – a staggering 17! Although London England continues to threaten to do more…

Asia:
We have clarified that it is in fact the city of Ulsan in South Korea who will be undertaking the crawl – they now have 6 venues listed, including “The Robot Place” sounds good to us!

We also welcome for the first time to our crawls Kabul in Afghanistan!

North America:

We have clarified that Hayward is in California, other than that North America has had a disappointing week.

There are still many fine cities out there, including previous participants, who are letting themselves down a bit…

5 Continents – 6 Countries – 20 Cities – 58 Venues

We have also updated our web site - you can now visit us at http://www.pyssedas.com/gipc2006.html.

[Pyssedas]

Highlights of today’s update:
· What do I have to do to be involved
· 6 new cities join up
· T-shirt ordering time
· Melbourne Crawl requests loan of Carlton Draught Horses
· Pub Crawl Forum Update

Hi Everyone and welcome to another Pub Crawl update, with little over a month left to go time is now seriously running out to join up for the crawl – in order to finalise t-shirt designs all cities and venues will need to have sent through their details to us [Pyssedas@yahoo.com] by Friday 5th May.

Again if you have friends anywhere around the world who might be interested please forward on this message to them! We are seriously trailing last year’s total despite having at least 23 cities involved.

What do I have to do to be involved?

I received a message the other day that some people were unsure what they had to do to be involved – it’s simple and its free – here are the basic steps:
1. Decide you want to have a beer [or liquor of your choosing] on Saturday May 27th
2. Decide where you want to have it – this could be a pub/bar, your house, local gutter etc
3. Send us the details of where you will be drinking and we will add you to the list
4. Huzzah – that is all you have to do!
5. Decide you want to get in contact with all your South American friends to get them involved

6 new cities join up:

Welcome to Sydney and Orange in New South Wales and Perth in Western Australia, our first New Zealand City Auckland. Two more cities from the USA, Portland in Oregon joining us for the first time and we welcome back Seattle Washington which has a crawl of 5 pubs finishing at The Irish Emigrant.

T-shirt ordering time:

T-shirts are by no means mandatory and we are not seeking to make a profit from them. Once again this year the shirt design will be sent to anyone who wants it so that you can print it locally to you if you wish.

Last year through bulk ordering here in Australia we managed to produce shirts for the following prices [These included postage to wherever you are in the world] $22 Australian, $18 US, 10 English pounds, 14 Euros. This is indicative only at the moment as it will depend on how many order we get, and of course on exchange rates. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested in getting a shirt!

Melbourne Crawl requests loan of Carlton Draught Horses:

For reasons lost in the mists of time, the Melbourne leg of the crawl traditionally carries a potted fig plant around. As the fig has grown over the years it is now too big to be easily carried – to help out with this problem, one crawl member has written to CUB asking if we can borrow their draught horses and cart on the day – text and updates of CUB responses can be found on the forum

Forum Update:
If you haven’t yet done so why not check out the Pub Crawl forum, http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2 it is full of useful threads to organise the local legs of your crawl. For example, people coming on the Melbourne leg of the crawl are asked to RSVP there!

OK- if you have made it this far through the update you must be reasonably keen – once again, please take the time to let a couple of your friends know about the crawl – the more who are involved the more fun it is for everyone. If there is anything we can do to help you out with this please feel free to get in contact.

Cheers
Dave

[Pyssedas]

In this week’s Friday Pub Crawl Update:
· Africa catches the spirit of the crawl
· Scandinavia gets on board
· Man travels 3456 kms to get to crawl
· T-shirt orders slow…
· South America & Antarctica remain recalcitrant

Hi Everyone,

With one week left before we have to finalise the t-shirt design [and that timeline cannot be extended] we currently have 5 continents, 11 countries, 32 cities and 73 venues participating. If you are not sure whether you are included yet check out the crawl website - http://www.pyssedas.com/gipc2006.html ! If you have been putting off getting your friends or family involved tarry no longer – the time to invite them is now!

Africa catches the spirit of the crawl:
Thanks to the worthog brewers collective things are really rocking on the African continent this week – as well as many new venues in their leading crawl city of Pretoria, we now have venues in Boksburg, Eastern Cape and Erasmuskloof. Africa now overtakes Asia in terms of the number of cities and the number of venues which will be crawling on the 27th.

Scandanavia gets on board:
Our new country of the week is Norway, where drinkers will gather at Stolen in Oslo on the 27th for a brew or two. Over 17,000 km away in the regional Australian city of Bendigo drinks will be on at The Golden Vine hotel. Back in Europe things are almost certain to be messy at the Oxford Summer Eights rowing carnival where Dan is planning to drink at as many boathouses as he can find!

Man travels 3456 kms to get to crawl:
Special mention is surely deserved by Kenneth who has posted over at the Pub Crawl organising forum - http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2 that he is going to fly from Perth to Melbourne [apparently 3456 kms although that number seems to good to be true] to join the Melbourne crawl! Outstanding effort that…

T-shirt orders slow:
Currently we have only 8 people who have said they want t-shirts – if you want one [or more] please let me know – with such tight timelines there is no time to waste

South America & Antarctica remain recalcitrant:
With only one week left we are yet to locate brewers or drinkers in either of these fine continents – please please please if you have contacts there encourage them to take a brew with us on May 27th

[jjpm74]

I don't quite get it (but I've had 4 barleywines tonight, so that's not helping).

I want to participate. I will be at BRUrm@BAR in New Haven, CT USA on May 27. Do I invite people? How's this work?

[Pyssedas]

Hey jjpm - fair questions - to be involved at the most basic level you have already done all you need to - we BRUrm Bar to the list on our website, and onto the t-shirt design

It will probably be more fun for you if organise a few mates along to the bar, and if you have time to encourage other friends to join in that would be great, they can either post here - or drop us a mail at pyssedas@yahoo.com Again all they have to do is a have a beer somewhere and tell us where

So welcome New Haven, incidently that takes the US city count to 8, just one behind Australia...

[DecoJuicer]

Put down Michigan. I'll be at Kuhnhenn's Brewery in Warren on the 27th with a few mates. Anybody else from the Detroit metro area up for it??

Pyssedas,

I'll send you an email.

[Pyssedas]

Welcome Warren - interestingly we have someone called Warren drinking in Brisbane Australia on the day...now all we need to do is find someone called Brisbane...

[Pyssedas]

In your brief Monday Update:
· Antarctica joins the crawl
· Londons announce their crawls
· US & Australia tied for most cities on the crawl

Antarctica joins the Crawl:
Huzzah – we finally have Antarctica on the crawl. After years of trying not one, but two bars in the Antarctic joined over the weekend. We welcome the Penguin Pub at Palmer Station, and the Dodgy Bastard Bar at Ninety Degrees South. Now for South America…

Londons Announce their Crawls:
Talk about not one but two… Two Londons confirmed their venues over the weekend, with Kirsty in England planning 12 pub crawl, and Dogger Dan in Canada attempting 4 venues and a game of golf – well done guys!

US & Australia tied for most cities on the crawl:
Over the weekend New Haven in Connecticut and Warren in Michigan signed up for the crawl bring the US level with Australia on 9 cities/towns participating. England is on 4, with South Africa on 3 cities.

All up we have 87 venues in 36 cities in 13 countries on 6 continents involved – the t-shirt design is coming together [we have 14 expressions of interest in shirts] thanks to all people who are telling their friends and getting more places involved!

[jjpm74]

Originally posted by Pyssedas
Antarctica joins the Crawl:
Huzzah – we finally have Antarctica on the crawl. After years of trying not one, but two bars in the Antarctic joined over the weekend. We welcome the Penguin Pub at Palmer Station, and the Dodgy Bastard Bar at Ninety Degrees South. Now for South America…
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:confused: Is that a joke? There are only a handful of scientists living in Antarctica and no commercial establishments.

[Pyssedas]

No it appears to be for real - i'm not sure that it is a commercial establishment per se - but if you do a google search for "penguin pub palmer station" it comes up with a wide range of sites which reference it

frankly if i were down there [and this might explain why i am not] i suspect that i would spend more time brewing and drinking than studying the polar lichen...or whatever it is that they all do

[Pyssedas]

· 48 hours left to contribute to t-shirt design
· Brisbane Australia goes silly!
· 6 continents – 13 countries – 38 cities – 119 venues
· Souvenir booklet contributions

48 hours left to contribute to t-shirt design:
Thanks to everyone who has been encouraging their friends to join in the crawl – it is growing really quickly at the moment – we need the names of all cities and venues who wish to be included on the t-shirt design by close of business Friday Australian time [ie about 48 hours from now] Once again – anyone who can convince people in South America to join in that would be great.

We can produce and send t-shirts anywhere in the world for $22 australian which is the same price as last year – but you need to let us know you want one ASAP Pyssedas@yahoo.com - the t-shirt design will be freely available to anyone who wants to print their own elsewhere in the world.

Brisbane goes silly:
Brisbane, Australia has taken the lead for the single biggest crawl in a city, with a list of 21 pubs to be attempted. Last year Brisbane crawled by ferry, happily they seemed to have decided on more conventional transport this year.

6 continents – 13 countries – 38 cities – 119 venues:
While South America continues to disappoint the interest from the Antarctic is spectacular – thanks to all the guys and girls down there who answered my odd emails in the beginning. Africa too is continuing to expand with another three cities, Sandton, Randburg and Midrand joining up. This moves the African total past that of Asia, and starting to close in on Europe. Both Auckland and Oslo have added more venues to their crawls. 119 venues is more than we had last year – it would be great if we could hit 150

Souvenir booklet contributions:
We are trying to put together a souvenir booklet – free to anyone who wants it – for this year’s crawl – if anyone has photos, memories of last year’s crawl [yeah right] descriptions of their homebrew clubs, anything at all really – that we can include we’d love to see it. Either mail it to us or contribute it over at the crawl forum - http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2

[jjpm74]

Originally posted by Pyssedas
No it appears to be for real - i'm not sure that it is a commercial establishment per se - but if you do a google search for "penguin pub palmer station" it comes up with a wide range of sites which reference it

frankly if i were down there [and this might explain why i am not] i suspect that i would spend more time brewing and drinking than studying the polar lichen...or whatever it is that they all do

I never thought the one continent you wouldn't have representation for would be one of the most populated in the world. That is kind of sad. Did you send out an SOS at pubcrawler and some of the other bigger beer sites?

[Pyssedas]

hmm no - in fact i am not even aware of "pubcrawler"

[Pyssedas]

Huzzah, huzzah huzzah! With only 24 hours left to confirm the design of the t-shirt we have conquered our seventh, and final, continent.

We welcome The Adventure Brew Hostel in La Paz, Boliva to the crawl!.

In addition to La Paz we also welcome Osaka, Prague, and Albuquerque [there’s a sentence you don’t often get to write].

As well as 1 new venue in Brisbane, 3 new venues in Bendigo, 20 new venues in Denver and 2 new venues in Portland, Oregon.

If there are more cities and venues, t-shirt orders etc please let us know about them ASAP!

[Pyssedas]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick update on the pub crawl.

We currently have 158 venues in 44 cities in 16 countries on 7 continents participating – but there is still time to be involved. The crawl of course is not until May 27th!

In recent days we have welcomed a third Antartic base, McMurdo on board, as well as a second crawl in Seattle and Deer Lake Charlie’s in Minnesota.

If you want to be more involved you can be, we are putting together a souvenir booklet [to be distributed for free] of the crawl, if you want to contribute either photos or even better text [a couple of hundred words on who yous are, what you will do on day etc e tc] that would be great

The first run of t-shirts should be coming off the presses on Thursday, to be mailed to the world immediately. There may be a second run – depending on if there is any demand – if you want the designs so you can print your own drop us an email.

Don’t forget to let your friends all around the world know about the crawl – and check out the forum - http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2

[Pyssedas]

Work on the souvenir booklet is just about complete - if you have not yet sent your hard copy address to us please do so [unless you are on the Melbourne crawl] so that you can recieve your copy. [If you require more than one please indicate] They are free, colourful and full of nothing useful at all.

Melbourne Crawlers please RSVP either to me or via the forum - http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2 - precise details including starting times etc can be negotiated there too!

Latest addition to the list Muntinlupa in the Phillipines!