Only because you all voted yes. Or at least the ones who voted voted yes. At any rate, here's the start . More to come on staying in a castle, the Ha-Ha wall and Achill Island. But this is my original greeting from Ireland:
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real guinness and not that crap masquerading as guinness that we forced to drink in the u.s. i'm jealous pat!
I tried Guiness on tap locally several years ago and hated it. Made me think I was drinking raw molasses!
Tried it in a pub in Limerick and was very surprised how different, and good, it tasted.
i'm staring at a pint of water.
point: frumpy irish guy
Did the shamrock last to the bottom? My understanding is it takes some skill to get it right but even more to get the shamrock to last until the drink is at the bottom.
Why am I looking at a mug of Hires Root Beer?
The Guinness is the same. It is brewed in one place…Dublin! It is just the idiot bartenders here that pour it all at once without letting it settle.
Conversely, PBR tastes totally different in Ireland!
Step one completed Pat, well done.
Give our regards to Dan Rooney. We know you're a closet Stillers fan!
Guinness is not all brewed in Dublin. The canned/bottled product distributued to the US market is produced by Labatts.
There's all sorts of mythology related to Guinness, some of it true (yes it does matter how you pour the draft version) and some not. Good info here:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/432405/philadelphia_daily_news_joe_sixpack_column_getting_the_word_on/index.html
Also, terje: One December I was in Jamaica on a Sunday a week or so before Christmas. I drank a Red Stripe draft served from a poolside bar while floating under the clear Jamaican sky. Just over the bar I could hear the relaxing lilt of the ocean and surprisingly enough, there was a Browns game on one of the bar's two televisions.
I tell you what….that Red Stripe was much better than that crap they try and pass off here in the US.
G is correct. I just assumed we were talking about draught since that is what Pat is drinking and photographing somewhere in a pub in Ireland. The draught in a keg is all from Ireland. The other varieties are brewed elsewhere.
Now…Back to my Miller High Life, The Champagne of Beers!
the temperature of the guinness served here is also wrong. so not letting it settle and wrong temp equals garbage.
I wonder if any gangs of nice, young, respectable, cerebral, well-groomed Irish lads have walked up to Mr. McManamon's bar stool while he's sitting alone in Mickey O'Sullivan's and said, "DOLAN IS CHEAP! DOLAN SUCKS!," and then repeatedly kicked the poor guy in the groin and left him laying there in his own vomit. I would think a true story like that would be blog-worthy.
Also, I wonder how much of that "Ireland's beer there is better than it is here" is reality or is just the brainwashed atmosphere. I'll bet it's a lot of both. Like those Pizza Hut commercials. A bunch of American rubes are told and therefore really believe they're eating genuine French pastry and genuine Italian pasta, and they've got the bogus French and Italian atmospheres going on with people speaking in bogus French and Italian accents. That is, until the Pizza Hut people finally whip off their fake Frenchie and Chef Boyardee clothes and the American rubes learn they've been conned. Turns out they'd really been chowing down some mass-produced crapola made from 10,000 alley cats seasoned and cooked in the back room of a Chinese laundry.
You don't deserve a vacation Pat. You ought to be suffering here like all the rest of us. On the other hand, it is a good time to be out of town and avoid standard Browns pre-season hype, LeBron dunk none-sense and noise, and the Indian's climb back into the race — just kidding about that last part. Lucky bstrd.
What brand of beer does Carl Pavano drink?
I think he orders a schlitz, then pours it down the well and chugs an appletini when no one is looking.
And what, may I ask, is an appletini? Is this one of those fancy new martinis that he smart set is drinking? Hmmm, I'll guess apple schnapps or some such liquor is involved. All in all, I'd rather be drinking a Guinness anywhere in the world than a noveau martini.
Actually, some drunk Irishman (redundant) invented the appletini. I don't know why any dude with a functional tongue would want to drink one, they're horrible. It has all the taste appeal of an Irish car bomb, including the kerosene.
my goodness