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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 312: Lent and beer fasting
Description: With special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Paulaner pils, then discuss Lent and fasting.
Lent is the penitential season before Easter. Crowhill gives a basic history of Lent, and the boys discuss some common Lenten customs.
The 40 days of Lent are symbolic, similar to other 40-day events in the Bible.
Modern Lenten fasts are usually not as stringent as fasts in the past, and especially not as strict as the fasts the monks used to do.
Which leads us to Pigweed and Crowhill's beer fast.
The Paulaner...