Yay, it's time for a battle of the giants in time of Winter Solstice known by christians as "Christmas", which we Finns call joulu, as in pagan Yule celebrations as it's an ancient festival of light, when winter has it's darkest hour and day begins to get longer again after couple of days' "solstice". Well, christians can celebrate their "Christ's mass", but I celebrate love and family. But first, let's get into fighting business. It's time for a duel: Tonight on ring are the two maybe best beers in the world. At least best of the Belgium beers - Chimay Blue and my all-time-favorite Duvel. Of course it's quite funny to first speak of pagan Yule and then have one beer, that is made by trappist monks (Chimay) and then have a counterpart in drink called "devil" (Duvel). But well, we are the generations moulded by christianity and it's effect in European culture, so let's just go with the flow.
So, here you go, let's start the video and have two pints of great beer :)
Duvel vs. Chimay Blue - the Yule battle of the beer gods
PS. This is the best "Christmas song", a great love story of a bum and a punk in love and falling out of love (with fucking great Irish tunes and stuff including christmas and new years and New York's finest Irish, like NYPD choir and such), so let's listen to this a couple of times while having good beer, folks: The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York <- a good home karaoke version too, as it has lyrics, so go on, sing - or try to sing it - my brothers and sisters, sing your hearts out and enjoy life!
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