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11/15/2011

Deep Sea Helmet (Day 24)

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Left:  Found in a bar in Derry, Ireland 2009.


Below:  Found at the Civil Life. 


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In 2009, as I wandered Europe on my drinkabout, I would spend countless hours sitting in pubs thinking about how to build the pub now known as the Civil LIfe.  It was very time consuming and during the process, I racked up a good 10,000 pictures... which I edited down to 9,999 when I returned back to the States.  

I am a big believer in pub culture as evidenced in my “Daylight Savings Time Ushers in Pub Season” post.  In Ireland, time and time again I found myself sitting in a pub and looking around at collections of all sorts of items.  This collection of old deep sea diving helmets caught my eye.  Transporting myself to a deep sea diver in the late 1800’s, walking on the ocean floor and then returning to land to tell people of all my experiences.  People are naturally skeptical of things but in the 1800‘s they seemed to buy into a lot more.  But I am sure they had little frame of reference for someone telling them they had seen schools of fish, barracudas and jelly fish.  

I can almost hear the questions, “Schools of fish, what kind of school? What are they possibly learning?” “Jelly fish, how can I spread that on bread.”  and “I bet Baraccuda would make a good song?"

And with that, I enter our one deep sea helmet replica into the pub.  I couldn’t afford a collection of them but it is always good to start somewhere and one is really the only beginning I know.   

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    Hello earthlings. I have been sent here to open a brewery. I hope you have time over the next year to check in from time to time and see our progress (or lack there of at times).  

    I look forward to helping you come along for the ride through this blog. For me, there is no better feeling than creating a place and a product that becomes part of peoples lives. I am focused, immensely passionate and hopeful that each of you one day will toast “To the Civil Life.”  
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  • PUB
    • BEER ON DRAUGHT >
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      • German Wheat
      • Pint Boots Table Beer
      • Kolsch-Style Ale
      • Pale Ale
      • Rye Pale Ale GABF Gold 2014
      • The Angel and the Sword Ale
      • British Mild
      • American Brown Ale
      • Porter
      • Milk Stout
      • Extra Stout
      • BEERS ON DECK!! >
        • India Pale Ale
      • Beers on Vacation >
        • #Carlbock Lager
        • Altbier
        • American ESB
        • American Pale Ale
        • American Session Ale
        • Amsterdam Tavern Goal!den Ale
        • "Bee Civil" Honey Wheat Beer
        • Belgian Dubbel
        • Belgian Table Beer
        • BIG BEER SERIES "BIG AMERICAN STOUT"
        • BIG BEER SERIES Big Belgian Blonde
        • BIG BEER SERIES "BIG YEAR BROWN"
        • BIG BEER SERIES "GORDIAN KNOT BOCK"
        • BIG BEER SERIES Scottish "Wee Bit" Heavy
        • Black Ale
        • Black Lager
        • British Bitter (English Pale Ale)
        • Burton-on-Holt
        • Circle 7 American Wheat Beer
        • Civil Common
        • Cream Ale
        • Czech Pilsner
        • Dortmunder Lager
        • Dresselsbier "Hoppy Wheat"
        • Dry Hop Red Ale
        • English IPA
        • English Summer Ale
        • Extra Special Bitter (ESB)
        • German Pilsner
        • Guerrilla Street Blonde Ale
        • Merchant Ship IPA
        • Munich Dunkel Lager
        • Northern English Brown
        • Oatmeal Brown Ale
        • Oatmeal Stout
        • Oktoberfest
        • Ordinary Bitter Ale
        • Premium Bitter
        • Proper Pint
        • Ruby Mild
        • Rye Stout
        • Scottish Ale
        • Scottish Export Ale
        • Scottish Style "70 Shilling"
        • Stevie's 5 Star Amber
        • STL Best Ale
        • "The Great Hencini" Southern English Brown
        • "The Mentor" English Golden Rye
        • UK IPA
        • Vienna Lager
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