Beer Recall

[Grandpa]

....you could just mull it over whilst enjoying a lovely beverage....

What a great idea! Even though I'm currently in a town where you can't buy alcohol. You can own it, but you can't buy or sell it. Good thing I packed right. *glug*

I got no drinking problem. I drink. I trip over words. I stagger. I fall down. No problem.

 

[Owenk]

On the subject of Guinness - opps!

Guinness apologises for embarrassing error on St Patrick's Day advert - can you spot it?

 

[Owenk]

What a great idea! Even though I'm currently in a town where you can't buy alcohol. You can own it, but you can't buy or sell it. Good thing I packed right. *glug*

I got no drinking problem. I drink. I trip over words. I stagger. I fall down. No problem.

Really - you still haev dry towns? Some Welsh "Chapel" town used to be dry on Sundays but even that is a thing of the long past over here.

 

[Owenk]

....yeep!.....and one day, I do hope to visit and imbibe....I have been told my roots are both German and Welsh, so I guess it would sorta be like a homecoming....

Ireland is a fair old swim from either Germany or Wales

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Ireland is a fair old swim from either Germany or Wales

My grandfather used to tell me the real luck of the Irish was when a barrel of Guinness sometimes mysteriously fell off the delivery wagon when the driver stopped for a pint at Paddy Burkes Pub.

 

[Owenk]

My grandfather used to tell me the real luck of the Irish was when a barrel of Guinness sometimes mysteriously fell off the delivery wagon when the driver stopped for a pint at Paddy Burkes Pub.

I'll tell you something which was truly terrifying, and I am in no way condoning drinking and driving, but just recording what used to happen in a different time.

My parents kept a pub in Oxford with the traditional beer cellar and we used to have deliveries from the brewery a couple of times a week.

The draymen would arrive in their lorry early, haul the empty casks up out of the cellar and then roll the full ones down on rails slowing it with a rope. They would all then have 15 minutes break in the bar and it was traditional to give them a couple of pints (drivers included.) They would then go on to their next drop and would, I guess do 6 or 8 more drops.

So two pints at each might mean 12 or 16 pints in a working day, driver included. It was very hard physical work, so they would burn quite a bit of it off, but even so.

 

[Grandpa]

Really - you still haev dry towns? Some Welsh "Chapel" town used to be dry on Sundays but even that is a thing of the long past over here.

It's actually considered a "damp" town because you can own and drink alcohol, but not sell or buy it. It's a small town in the middle of a native culture, and alcoholism and alcohol-related offenses are prevalent. Quite sad.

I really don't mind the semi-ban, although it would be nice to go out for dinner and a glass of wine - but then again, I'm starting my 11th week here, and I still haven't eaten out - but even that much lifting of the ban would cause its own problems.

 

[skimom2]

....I had my first glass of Guinness last night....I KNOW!....at my age, a beer drinker-and never drank the syrup?....I enjoyed it muchly, especially the "settling" process....

Stout is pretty much my favorite beer. Next, try a black and tan: Guinness in a glass, then slowly add a lager or amber ale. The Guinness settles on the bottom, so you have a bi-colored drink that's mighty tasty

 

[Out of Order]

Stout is pretty much my favorite beer. Next, try a black and tan: Guinness in a glass, then slowly add a lager or amber ale. The Guinness settles on the bottom, so you have a bi-colored drink that's mighty tasty

Ever tried Yuengling Black and Tan, skimom?

 

[skimom2]

Ever tried Yuengling Black and Tan, skimom?

I have not! Just Guinness or local stouts. I'm going to look that up

 

[Out of Order]

I have not! Just Guinness or local stouts. I'm going to look that up

It's not too bad in my view, well you know me and beer, but anyway...........

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Ever tried Yuengling Black and Tan, skimom?

Yuengling, being a somewhat 'local' brewery was always a very drinkable domestic lager. But it was cheap beer. Then in the 90’s (I believe), a marketing guru simply slapped a new label on the can to look like parchment (with no change to the original formula), raised the price to above premium levels, and marketing it as high-end premium lager. Genius! But when they upped the price I stopped drinking it.

Yuengling came out with an ice cream last year (after a hiatus of 30 years) that is delicious. But pricey at about $7 a container. Yuengling had a stand and were giving out free samples last weekend at the ski resort up the road, and I tried their Original Sea Salt Caramel Swirl and Root Beer Float, which both were very good. Their Black and Tan ice cream is mighty tasty, also.

Black and Tan | Yuengling's Ice Cream

 

[GNTLGNT]

Ireland is a fair old swim from either Germany or Wales

...ach!....no worries....I have me some foine long pins and flippers to fit em.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

Stout is pretty much my favorite beer. Next, try a black and tan: Guinness in a glass, then slowly add a lager or amber ale. The Guinness settles on the bottom, so you have a bi-colored drink that's mighty tasty

 

[GNTLGNT]

It's not too bad in my view, well you know me and beer, but anyway...........