{"id":257907,"date":"2022-09-19T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=257907"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T17:08:41","slug":"taste-the-revolution-its-really-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/taste-the-revolution-its-really-good\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTaste the Revolution,\u201d it\u2019s really good"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not a secret that I like beer a lot, everyone who knows me knows it and also my belly gives me away. I owe the hobby to my father and many good friends who, like my old man, accompany me from other dimensions knowing that I remember them every time I have a cold beer, also to people with whom I continue to enjoy the pleasure of a cold beer every time that life makes it possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my beer dreams has always been to visit the Oktoberfest in Bavaria. Enjoy German beer, as it should be, as God intended. Also, I must confess that the typical image of smiling Germans dressed in their \u201cdirndl\u201d carrying huge mugs of foaming beer really appeals to me. But Germany is still pending and for now I have changed that image for typical Palestinian costumes, kufiyas and a newly discovered beer that I love, Taybeh.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few days ago I was at the Oktoberfest of the Taybeh brewery, in the Christian Palestinian town of the same name, in the occupied West Bank. An event that has been held since 2005 when, just after the Second Intifada, Nadim Khoury, creator of the popular beer, decided to hold an Oktoberfest to show the world that Palestinians resist and that they are people who like to enjoy life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The factory courtyard, usually empty, was decorated for the occasion with a long bar with beer dispensers, something like a Taybeh altar. There were also typical Palestinian food stalls, handicrafts and a thousand other trinkets. And people, lots of people, a mixture of Palestinians, foreigners residing in the West Bank and Israel and even the occasional Jew who, dressed in his kippah, cooled off with a cold beer. It seemed like a wonderful and hot tower of babel in which everyone drank beer, enjoyed Palestinian dances and contests of skills, such as holding a huge beer mug the longest.<\/span><\/p>\n