Guinness, finally...

drinkin beers, beers, beers...

that's the stuff.

Are you sure - I found that Yugoslavian Coke produces flatulence. They can't really do much about the water supply, can they?

On the continent, isn't 'Coca Cola Light' the norm rather than Diet Coke? I sometimes see grey market 'Light' cans over here with funny languages on. An afficionado (I drink the full cal stuff) told me that was a totally different recipe.

Well before I get horribly drunk anyways.

You mean that isnt a rugby/(american)football team tradition?

Impurities in the beer stick to it and sink to the bottom of the barrel, allowing the good stuff to be poured gently, thus removing bd stuff.

i was on the back seat of the bus this morning and someone had written "fitzgerald 02" in marker and i thought of ronan...

The Coke thing isn't true. I can tell straight away if I'm drinking Coke produced anywhere other than the UK. A lot of small shops in London sell Coke imported from, I'm guessing, somewhere in eastern Europe, for reasons I've never quite worked out.

Interesting thing about these varieties, apart from the taste difference, is that when it's a 500ml bottle the plastic circle that is supposed to separate from the cap when you first open it doesn't separate, and it can be hard consequently to screw the cap back on. This perhaps isn't such an interesting thing.

I was in Prague for a while, and the Coke initially tasted horrible. Then I got used to it, and I thought the UK version tasted funny for a while when I came back.

http://www.ivo.se/guinness/specs.html

Bottled Guinness (U.S.)
This is an "Extra Stout"
Alcohol: 4.8% abw, 6% abv (although one poster noted that they had seen 5.6% in their promotional materials. Michael Jackson reports these figures.)

This only confuses matters.

here in the US there's now, besides the tall draft cans and regular bottled Guiness, a new bottled version that comes in a plastic bottle and has the thingy in there that makes it pour like draft. but it's a complete racket as it's only, like, 9 ounces or something for the same price as the 12 oz., non-draft style. granted it is creamier and smoother than either the can or 12 oz. bottled version. but fer my money...

LA Times goes to Ireland and discovers things for itself.

At Davy Byrnes, the conversation has moved on to whether John McCain inappropriately placated his Vietnamese captors ("He sang like a canary," Winter declares); the mass suicide and massacre of Jews in York in 1190; Josef Stalin's execution of his top army officers in the run-up to World War II; and a song by the Waterboys on a similar subject. Someone tries to remember how it goes. An argument ensues over whether the Waterboys ought to be considered an Irish band, or Scottish, or English.

Delany, the barman, looks to be of the opinion that he's not getting paid enough to keep pouring the Guinness down here, but pour he does.