By Tom Meade of SNS

All the world is Irish on St Patrick's Day, the old saying goes.

I am grateful for the beer can, for it has taught me much.

I have learned a bit about physics: if you leave approximately one twelfth of beer in your can, you can tilt the can slightly and it will balance at an angle. In school, they taught other laws of physics such as 'what goes up must come down', but beer taught me what goes down, can come up.

A major Queensland pub licensee who has switched a quarter of his 110 establishments to glass alternatives as a safety measure, says not one customer has complained.

The state government is encouraging all pubs to move to tempered glass or plastic after a spate of glassings, but has issued show cause notices to 77 venues where there have been repeated attacks.

And they said going through a recession was a bad thing.

While most businesses across Australia stressed about the possibility of either going bust or losing profit in 2009, beer companies were raking in record profits.

What could be more appropriate? Venerable kiwi winery Selaks Wines is celebrating its 75th birthday with the launch of its first Methode Traditionelle bubbly since 1996.

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