Tuesday, 8 June 2010

COGH picture special

Here are all our contestants so far (31 of 32) posing in group order on the lawn. Aren't they lovely? Online polls for all groups are down the right hand column from today. Enjoy the fine art below...

Group A: Uruguay, Mexico, France, S. Africa

Group B: Nigeria, Argentina, S. Korea, Greece

Group C: Algeria, Slovenia, USA, England

Group D: Australia, Ghana, Serbia, Germany

Me setting up the as yet incomplete Group E:
Japan, Netherlands, Denmark, Cameroon (missing)

Group F: New Zealand, Paraguay, Slovakia, Italy

Group G: Brazil, N. Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal

Group H: Switzerland, Honduras, Chile, Spain

And here they are en masse...
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8 comments:

  1. Felicity Hughes9 June 2010 at 03:05

    I had no idea Skol was from Algeria. Surely they have something better to offer.
    Sagres brings back fond memories of working at Oddbins though, we used to crack one open after a hard day's work, as they were the cheapest beer we sold. Not bad at all though.

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  2. The Cup of Good Hop9 June 2010 at 04:41

    hi Fliss,

    i reckon Sagres will do pretty well - unlike Skol. Not long til me, James and our EBTs - Executive Beer Tasters Stuart and Dan will be drinking the lot...

    hope you enjoy the World Cup over there. Japan should get out of their group at least.

    P x

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  3. Cycling the Vistula9 June 2010 at 15:27

    Whoah!!! Ostravar is NOT a Slovak beer. It's from the neighbouring Czech Republic (you can even see that on your photo), and they didn't qualify. To avoid colossal offence to Slovaks everywhere (think England vs Scotland), get yourself a bottle of Smädný Mních, Zlatý Bažant, Topvar or even Stein (but only in extremis). If you can't source one near you mail me at paulkbxl@gmail.com and I'll see what I can do...

    PS Fantastic blog title!

    Paul

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  4. The Cup of Good Hop9 June 2010 at 16:25

    hi Paul,

    we've tried - i've searched high and low for Slovak beer - i wrote to Heineken to try and get some Zlaty Bazant and they sent a measly jpeg... any help you could give me would be fantastic. would need something to arrive before Sunday.

    glad you like the blog title...

    P.

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  5. Andy10 June 2010 at 09:51

    Having spent all of the 2002 tournament drinking OB, I reckon it'll be propping up Group B!

    Fantastic blog by the way - I've been reading for a couple of weeks now. Almost supping time :)

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  6. The Cup of Good Hop10 June 2010 at 10:57

    cheers Andy,

    so glad you've been enjoying it - hopefully a lot more than OB. feel free to contribute whenever.

    new post just going up now.

    cheers,

    Peter

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  7. Jan11 June 2010 at 05:51

    That Adnam's (or any other beer in that photo) is certainly not ours, in fact I've never even heard of it.

    Cheers from Slovenia,
    Jan

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  8. The Cup of Good Hop13 June 2010 at 02:25

    Hi jan,

    We ve had to be a bit creative on some beers as we really couldn't get hold of them.
    Adnams use Slovenian hops so we thought that would be 'enough'.

    Apologies, and I hope you enjoy the rest of COGH.

    Peter

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