all praise Guinness

Guinness in a can = toxic waste

Murphy's is good too.

Well This isn't good.

"Sources indicated last night that Diageo would retain some activities at the world-famous St James's Gate brewery. This is likely to include its popular Guinness Storehouse attraction, which draws about 900,000 visitors a year. In addition, Diageo is expected to continue to make the black concentrate - known as the "essence of Guinness" - at St James's Gate. This is an integral part in the brewing of a pint of stout but is not labour-intensive."

St James's Gate houses the St Patrick's windmill, once the largest of its kind in western Europe, and a number of listed buildings*, making any redevelopment tricky.

*Hasn't really stopped developers before.

that's been coming a long time, most of the production had been phased out by now anyway.

i've always been a shorts or cider drinker myself.

but but but I pressed the big red button to start the production process when I was there last year. either that or I nuked an insignificant African country.

is this a big deal, really? as long as the black stuff doesn't disappear entirely s'all good.

I nuked an insignificant African country.

I believe it opened the polling booths in Zimbabwe.

It is a very big deal in a way as it's a major part of how Guinness sell themselves. So long as it keeps being produced though apart from sentimental reasons it's not the worst thing.

Bad timing on the sale of the land though. I know that the only way people actually were persuaded to buy in Ushers Island originally was because of Section 23.

Cider? Lovely twice a year. The Bulmers ads always get me. I then drink it. Too sweet. Smithwicks for me OM NOM NOM NOM

they still make guinness there, maybe just for the home market though? not too sure tbh.

i got into cider purely as an outside/barbecue drink, but yeah to be honest it's too sweet. i generally can't stomach LAD's at all though, i stick with a short and mixer.

LAD

???

They will continue to make the concentrate which I believe is distributed locally.

Short and mixers are dangerous for me as I drink them too quickly which leads to... trouble...

sorry- long alcoholic drinks ie anything in a pint glass.

Ah.

I dunno, I suppose I'm just terrible at pacing myself on anything that's not pints or glasses of wine. I'm crap at calculating amounts therefore need the visual clues (i.e. 9* pints = OMG LOTS. STOP NOW. AFTER THE NEXT ONE FOR SYMMETRY).

*Yeah I know, talk a big game etc.

do the bar staff usually leave your empty pint glasses lying around, or do you just have to visualise?

I hide it under my chair student-style. But no, It's just easier to tally up pints tbh.

i commend your discipline. generally, running out of cash or continued failed attempts to actually get any drink into my mouth successfully are the most reliable methods i've yet found to bring an end to the nights festivities.

it seems like James Gate is going to stay open, but the Kilkenny and Drogheda breweries will close: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0509/breaking2.htm

So Kilkenny will no longer be made in Kilkenny... though the loss of Smithwicks' traditional home is more of a loss to beer lovers.

running out of cash

OTM

continued failed attempts to actually get any drink into my mouth successfully

You are not trying hard enough. FAIL.

Bars closing is another good queue to go home. Or at least wander around for an hour looking for a taxi! Grrrrr. (xpost)

It said the renovated St James's Gate brewery will brew Guinness for the Irish and British markets while the new brewery will produce Guinness for export and ales and lagers for the Irish market.

Well now. It's not as bad as thought.

I dunno, Smithwicks really doesn't seem as centered around one place. Kilkennys is muck!

For tonight's supper I am cooking sausages with onions and red peppers braised in Guinness, with a dollop of deliciously-creamy mash.

Kilkeny and Smithwicks are terrible things to be called Ale. Always found it very hard to get a decent pint of bitter in Ireland and I am suspicious of Guinness if it doesn't come out of a bottle.

We don't do bitter in Ireland, do we?

Also CJ: YSI?

YSI??

yummy sausages, innit

Good one.

also

We don't do bitter in Ireland, do we?

-- hyggeligt, 09 May 2008 10:50 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i'm assuming this is relating only to alcoholic beverages, as opposed to the national passtime of begrudgery and moaning....

Now that's not a past-time it's a tradition handed down from father/mother to son/daughter and a celebration of our independence.

Twenty Major is pretty spot on about this.

A fantastic local beer is this one from Donegal.

Now that is more like it.

As I understand it, the reason why Ireland doesn't do bitter is because they specialised in brewing stout at the beginning of WW1. And like so many things, like the only just amended licensing laws in England, it was as a result of the Defence of the Realm Act. At one time stout and porter were widely brewed in England and Scotland and were at one point the dominant types of beer. However, stout production requires the roasting of the malt which bitter brewing doesn't. Roasting the malt requires large amounts of energy and so was banned in England and Scotland as an energy saving measure.

mmmm porter

http://www.anchorbrewing.com/images/porter_bottle.jpg

Indeed; my favourite, good for hard and meaty belching:

http://www.rchbrewery.com/oldslug.jpg

That's enough. This is a good Irish thread about Irish beer. Begone foreign oppressors!

shame the best version of guinness is brewed in Nigeria.

Or send me some of the old slug. That is a fantastic label! (xpost)

I love bars in London where they pump the beer out. Savage stuff.

also please ignore post above. What was funny in head is just rude on thread (xxpost)

I think we can now get the Nigerian stuff here. I'd really like to try it!

ur not rude. fraid was funny(ish) in fred too. i always thought a nigerian guinness was guinness with blackcurrant but I fear i may have been misled.

i love how gear turns into ned when he gets drunk

it's a slug! with a white moustache! and thus old!

brilliant.

nigerian guinness is just massive shtrong shtuff that'll tear the pants off ya. or so i'm led to believe.

and a monacle, don't forget the monacle.

or even a monocle

nigerian guinness is just massive shtrong shtuff that'll tear the pants off ya. or so i'm led to believe.

Was that the defence at your indecent exposure trial?

if such a trial ever comes up, i'm reasonably certain that alcohol will get at least a passing mention.

"I'd like to dedicate these three years to alcohol. You're the best!"

yronner, issathingy, witta witta ahfukit. salright, fukit. yronner. *belch*

yronner, issathingy, witta witta ahfukit. salright, fukit. yronner. *belch*

This is blindingly brilliant legal thought.

i still drink guinness but i've sort of moved onto the belgians, which turn me into something else when drunk