Dog Days Ale 2006 - Ale Shirts

Year of the Fire Dog

CafePress Merchandise

Team member and graphic artist, Susan Galbraith, has again designed a great T-shirt for the Dog Days Ale themed around the fact that 2006 is the Year of the Fire Dog!.

Although pre-orders are officially over, Susan created a variation of this Ale shirt design to print on white shirts and other merchandise. Check out the Hounds store at CafePress. Please note that all orders from CafePress are shipped directly to you -- not to the Hounds -- and orders can be placed anytime before or after the Ale.

The Chinese Calendar uses cycles of sixty years. A year within a cycle is designated by a combination of an element name (e.g., "Fire") and an animal name (e.g. "Dog"):

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Chicken, Dog, Pig

A Chinese year is uniquely determined by an element name, an animal name and a cycle number. Thus, 2006 is not only the Hounds' 21st anniversary, it is Year of the Fire Dog.*

* To be more precise, it is the Year of the Fire Dog in the 79th cycle, which is something like 33,180 dog years, ... but who's counting.